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wiseowise | 16 hours ago

> The US stooges and friends have done all sorts of bad (maybe even worse) things in the past.

What kind of all sorts of bad did they do in the past while they ruled a country? Have they ever usurped throne for 36 years?

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throw0101c|15 hours ago

> What kind of all sorts of bad did they do in the past while they ruled a country? Have they ever usurped throne for 36 years?

To take the second quest first, and focus on Iran since it's the topic du jour: you mean like how the shah usurped power from the legislature with US/UK help and ruled for 38 years?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27état

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi

And circling back to the first:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_Imperial_S...

Why do you think the 1979 Revolution happened in the first place? The people were tired of being repressed by an imperialist puppet:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution

(Hello irony.)