• kingshrubb@lemmy.mlOP
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    13 hours ago

    I wonder what Iran would be like if it still had its democratic government before the U.S. and U.K. orchestrated a coup in 1953 that installed the Shah for the crime of nationalizing their oil industry. Iran was on a path to democracy and the US undid that and installed an authoritarian leader.

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      15 hours ago

      Obviously way better…

      But that’s not whose been running Iran?

      Like, America would be a lot better off if Al Gore and Bernie Sanders had been elected too.

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        12 hours ago

        Right, but the people running Iran right now are the result of the US interfering explicitly to combat Iran’s socialization of their oil. Which reflexively led to the Iranian Revolution and the current Islamic Republic. The current regime would not exist without US interference. Al Gore and Bernie Sanders suffered domestic interference, not foreign.