[pepsionice]

The last decent and competent leader that Iran had was Mohammad Mosaddegh...deposed and jailed in 1953. The US and UK helped to dump the guy, and install their puppet (the Shah). From that point on, the clock was ticking and built to deliver some crazed religious nutcase. The Iranians have been waiting for well over sixty-five years for qualified leadership.

[Ohioan]

The Shah was our friend & ally. Mosaddegh was a Socialist demagogue, who wanted to confiscate American investments.

We did not install the Shah. We did provide him with counter intelligence type help to rally his allies outside of the Capital to frustrate an attempted coup, led by the traitor Mosaddegh.

Incidentally, the Shah's father achieved the upper hand over the rebels in the 1920s, long before the thankfully aborted treason of Mossaddegh.

[thesligoduffyflynns]

Allen Dulles (dir of CIA) had his hands and prints all over the downfall and removal of Mossadegh

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"The last decent and competent leader that Iran had was Mohammad Mosaddegh...deposed and jailed in 1953"

Are you serious?? He was a freakin Russian backed commie. I guess that doesn't mean much in 2018 but it meant a heck of a lot back then. If he had gotten full control of power, what do you think he would have done? Like all the other communists he would have confiscated people's wealth and had them killed and sent off to Gulags. The Shah was a lot like Mubarack in Egypt. He did what he had to do to keep a lid on the Islamic crazies. Now they are running the show, how did that work out? For most of the Iranian people, they were highly educated and westernized and enjoyed a high standard of living.