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The current Iranian regime is a direct result of US involvement in Iran. We are largely responsible for it, for two reasons: 1. By overthrowing a democratic go
by jmyeet 10mo ago
The current Iranian regime is a direct result of US involvement in Iran. We are largely responsible for it, for two reasons:
1. By overthrowing a democratic government in the first place to make the Shah a dictator, creating the seeds of revolution; and
2. When it becamne clear that Iran was "lost" (to the West) and fearing a takeover by the Communists and Iran falling into the Soviet sphere of influence, the US got Saddam Hussein, our then-puppet in Iraq who we used to stoke a war for a decade killing more than a million people as an aside, to release the Ayatollah Khomenei from prison in the hopes that the Islamic fundamentalists rather than the communists would win the revolution.
- tome 10mo agoDo you have a source showing that he was imprisoned in Iraq? Wikipedia suggests he was there freely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini%27s_life_in_exile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini%27s_life_in_...
- jacquesm 10mo agoHe was imprisoned in Iran, then went to Turkey and from there to Iraq iirc, but it is long ago, so I suspect the GP meant after he was arrested by the Shah.
- tome 10mo agoOP very specifically said that he was imprisoned by Saddam Hussein and that the US pulled strings to get him freed.