They didn't like that Iran's democratically elected leader wanted to nationalize the country's oil industry.
So then the CIA toppled their democracy and installed a ruthless dictator. The people eventually got fed up with this and Islamists overthrew the CIA puppet.
They don't teach this in most US public schools for a reason.
It blows my mind that nobody in these comments is talking about the Shah of Iran or the 1953 coup that installed him. Yes the Shah did a bunch of modernization, but he was also a dictator installed by the US and UK because the previously elected guy tried to nationalize Iranian oil.
Maybe one lesson to take from this is that we shouldn't overthrow democratically elected governments in favor of propping up autocratic regimes. Everyone in the comments here is judging the 79 revolution but thinking things were at all okay after 1953 just because of a photo of a flight attendant showing some skin is myopic AF.
JimmyJamesMac on January 2nd, 2025 at 12:24 UTC »
Dang, look how wide those stairs are!
ExoticCard on January 2nd, 2025 at 12:51 UTC »
Thank the CIA (Operation AJAX) for what we have today. They toppled democracy in Iran:
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthrew-irans-democracy-in-four-days
They didn't like that Iran's democratically elected leader wanted to nationalize the country's oil industry.
So then the CIA toppled their democracy and installed a ruthless dictator. The people eventually got fed up with this and Islamists overthrew the CIA puppet.
They don't teach this in most US public schools for a reason.
KookyWait on January 2nd, 2025 at 13:04 UTC »
It blows my mind that nobody in these comments is talking about the Shah of Iran or the 1953 coup that installed him. Yes the Shah did a bunch of modernization, but he was also a dictator installed by the US and UK because the previously elected guy tried to nationalize Iranian oil.
Maybe one lesson to take from this is that we shouldn't overthrow democratically elected governments in favor of propping up autocratic regimes. Everyone in the comments here is judging the 79 revolution but thinking things were at all okay after 1953 just because of a photo of a flight attendant showing some skin is myopic AF.