• Akasazh@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      No and if British petrol hasn’t been such greedy bastards Iran wouldn’t have spiralled into theocracy:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'état

      In 1953, the CIA- and MI6-backed 1953 Iranian coup d’état overthrew Iran’s Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, who had nationalized the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.[5][6][7] The coup reinstated Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as an absolute monarch and significantly increased United States influence over Iran.[8]

      So they helped end democratic rule and put a despot in place that was corrupt in their favor. The son of whom they are trying to get back into power now

      This corruption caused this:

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

      A theocratic despot who somehow hated the us and UK.

      This all could’ve been helped by letting the democracy be and paying a fair share for the oil extracted from the country, but that was somehow a bridge too far.