The president of Iran is dead and the majority of Iranians are celebrating. I'm happy for them, and for us. This man killed tens of thousands of people and terrorized all Iranians and Israelis. He funded Hamas and is responsible for October 7th with them. He alongside his entire Islamist movement took an amazing liberal country and turned it into a place where joy and freedom can put you in jail or cause your execution. This is a good day. I pray he won't have a replacement of his sort.
#iran
@thisisskaly
Forgive my ignorance, but wasn’t Iran’s democratically-elected leader overthrown by the CIA and wasn’t the Shah a puppet ruler installed by the US in his place to protect the interests of western oil companies?
@freediverx It is in fact ignorant to assume everything is always all about the US.
Wether or not the CIA had an influence, it was a very violent minority that overthrew the democracy they had. They had very brutal protests killing tens if not hundreds of thousands of their own people in the name of Islam.
1953 Iranian coup d'état - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27état
“The 1953 Iranian coup d'état […] was the U.S.- and British-instigated, Iranian army-led overthrow of the elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favor of strengthening the monarchical rule of the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, on 19 August 1953, with one of the significant objectives being to protect British oil interests in Iran.
It was aided by the United States […] nd the United Kingdom ...”
@freediverx Yes, like I said, they helped, but they didn't do it themselves, it was led by the Iranian army and a violent minority that was very prominent in schools. Similar to what's happening in the USA now and in pre Nazi Germany
@thisisskaly
Western intelligence always “helps” things along, don’t they?
@freediverx Not always no. Yes when it serves their motives. It's kinda embarrassing the way Americans think everything is completely in their control though. It's like you're trying to remove all responsibility off of the countries themselves, their people, religions, cultures.
@thisisskaly @freediverx
For a lot of Americans information on TP-AJAX being publicly available is somehow the proof that US always does that, but to me — a Russian, it's the proof of the opposite: it demonstrates really well how such an attempt to exercise influence can go sideways. US ended up not benefitting from it in any way and have lost control over Iran for decades. The most obvious lesson to learn from it would be to not attempt this again 🤷
@thisisskaly @freediverx
And while I agree, CIA certainly attempts to influence the policy of foreign nations e.g. by favouring certain factions over others, but this doesn't mean that everything is their doing. The intent might indeed be there — but it doesn't prove they always succeed. I'm pretty sure that they take way greater credit than their actual influence was. They of course might think they are in control — who doesn't like being in control? But it doesn't mean they really are.
