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5. So many don't know the history of Iran before the Shan and after...
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 12:39 PM
Jun 23

the fundamentalist mullahs revolted against the Shah.

In the 50s Iran had a democratically elected head of state... Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh. Our CIA and British Shell Oil were afraid the oil industry there was about to be nationalized so they somehow were able to meddle in Iranian affairs and deposed the PM and installed the Shah who would do whatever they wanted.

It was not until the late '70s that Iranian revolution took place and overthrew the Shan. The CIA meddling change history as Iran may still have had a democratically elected government if the US CIA had interfere to control the oil for British Shell.

And now here we are with our oil watchdog, Israel, succeeding in bringing us into their even wider war in the ME.

Seems Netanyahu wants to rule over the entire region with US backing and US weapons.

When hasn't there been war there with Israel always fighting Palestinians/Arabs? Now there's more to come.

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