How We Got Here, a brief meandering #HistoryLesson
Almost 75 Years Ago The #USA Ran A Dirty #RegimeChange Through #Iran At Behest Of #BigOil.
To #US state dept. It seemed like it was going great , state sponsored torture via #SAVAK took care of dissidents run under the "royal decree" of the reinstated #Persian monarch was established in 1957, with assistance of the #CIA and #Mossad. Apparently by 1970s, everybody loved their colognes and discos, skirts on the female pop stars and university students... eventually they even got IKEA as the oil was flowing.
Apparently nowadays no one abroad fondly recollects what happened next .. and what went down in past 45 years...
When US diplomatic hostages were taken and the #IKEA closed, it's managers paying baksheesh to escape, even the US backed #Shah, and anyone with dough was fleeing across borders....The Shah retired to a home near some Saudi Sheik's and #RodStewart's in #BeverlyHills as a back home revolution imposed an exiled #SupremeReligiousLeader...and somehow for decades, under an #Ayatollah in the 21st century, even with massive US imposed #sanctions, or perhaps because of it, the #RevolutionaryGuard leadership benefit by routing billions of dollars into their coffers by controlling thru force, the country's graft, aid, and economic exports. The dissidents still disappear even if perhaps public protest is occasionally allowed in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
They are the last of the #MiddleEast stalwarts refusing to bend to western #BloodForOil imposed Imperialism, while neighbors and rivals with formerly strong leaders like Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya have been burnt to crisp shells of former selves.
Now the billionaire bad boy US President is threatening to nuke them...or not.
