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The U.S. had a chance to do things right if they had left Mohammad Mossadegh alone. Can you blame the Persians for being pissed? We are the authors of our own m

• andreasvc 11y ago
  It's not possible to know what would have happened if Mossadegh was left alone by the US. It seems to me that the article hinted at conservative elements taking over regardless, and there could have been many other events troubling Iran's relationship with the west.
  • dragonwriter 11y ago
    > It's not possible to know what would have happened if Mossadegh was left alone by the US. It seems to me that the article hinted at conservative elements taking over regardless Sure, but there's a difference for the US between "conservative elements taking over" in Iran and "conservative elements taking over buoyed on a wave of anti-US feeling directly resulting from the US imposition of an unpopular, brutal regime" in Iran.
• ctchocula 11y ago
  We are making steps. For example, there is a nice exhibition in a Washington DC's Hirshhorn Art Museum called Facing History by Iranian-born artist Shirin Neshat that talks about history of Iran and illustrates how heavy in propaganda news was in 1953 at giving justification for British intervention in toppling Mossadegh. I think the Museum in allowing such an exhibition to be shown in the US is in some sense admitting US made a mistake (with the CIA intervention). It also teaches future generations that whatever the media and the government says should be taken with a grain of salt.