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Iran Placing Medium-Range Missiles in Venezuela; Can Reach the U.S.
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<blockquote data-quote="fluffernutter" data-source="post: 1405532" data-attributes="member: 10980"><p>correct, it was the british (not just the US) that organized and fed the false intelligence that the CIA was somehow fighting the communist Tudeh faction by supporting the Shah (which were truthfully not a threat and were hardly soviet aligned). Using your logic, why did we ever remove Saddam? He had supporters too in Iraq, and he was much more secular than the emerging leadership today (Sadr?). The truth is that the US meddling creates new enemies in the blowback. Present Iran (everything post 79) feeds on the anti-US sentiment from the 53 coup. supporting the Shah was not merely supporting one side in an internal power struggle, we paid iranian groups to shoot, to kill, to protest, to arrest Mossadegh, and to reinstall a monarch simply because the British wanted to maintain their oil contracts. that's it. </p><p></p><p>comparing the Shah to George washington is apples and oranges. a colony declaring independence from a crown is far different than staging terror attacks and bribing groups in an internal power struggle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fluffernutter, post: 1405532, member: 10980"] correct, it was the british (not just the US) that organized and fed the false intelligence that the CIA was somehow fighting the communist Tudeh faction by supporting the Shah (which were truthfully not a threat and were hardly soviet aligned). Using your logic, why did we ever remove Saddam? He had supporters too in Iraq, and he was much more secular than the emerging leadership today (Sadr?). The truth is that the US meddling creates new enemies in the blowback. Present Iran (everything post 79) feeds on the anti-US sentiment from the 53 coup. supporting the Shah was not merely supporting one side in an internal power struggle, we paid iranian groups to shoot, to kill, to protest, to arrest Mossadegh, and to reinstall a monarch simply because the British wanted to maintain their oil contracts. that's it. comparing the Shah to George washington is apples and oranges. a colony declaring independence from a crown is far different than staging terror attacks and bribing groups in an internal power struggle. [/QUOTE]
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