> 70 years ago, Iran looked just like any Western country. > Short skirts, rock’n’roll, open universities. > It’s 1953. Iran elects a secular socialist: Mohammad Mossadegh. > He nationalizes oil. That pisses off BP. > Cold War excuse. > CIA and MI6 stage a coup. Operation Ajax. > Mossadegh is overthrown. > They install the Shah, a brutal US-backed dictator. > Secret police. Torture chambers. > Iran turns into a puppet state. > People are that desperate, they turn to Khomeini, an exiled cleric, promising independence and dignity. > 1979: Islamic Revolution. > The Shah flees. > US embassy stormed. Hostage crisis. > America never forgives. > Arms Saddam Hussein. > Iraq invades Iran. > US provides chemical weapons, satellite intel, logistics. > 1 million Iranians die. > Iranian kids sent into minefields with plastic keys around their necks. > US shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 > 290 civilians dead. > No apology. > Fast forward today, Israel attacks Iran. > The U.S. immediately says “we stand with Israel.” > They talk about “regime change.” > They say that Iranians “deserve freedom.” > No mention of the coup they started. > No mention of the dictator they installed. > No mention of the war they fueled. > No mention of the decades of sanctions and sabotage. > They created the monster, and now they attacked it because it was still breathing. > Watch who they try to put on the throne next. > The son of the Shah is already being presented as the “alternative.” > The same dynasty. > The same foreign backing. >The same promises of stability. > History will repeats itself. > And it’s not gonna end well.
