[Alberta's Child]

Over the last few weeks I’ve seen plenty of comments from Freepers who claim that having the people of Iran overthrow their government would be a great turn of events for the U.S.

But isn’t that exactly what happened in 1979?

[bert]

No. Ayatollah Homeine in effect executed a sucessful Islamic coup.

[thoughtomator]

> But isn’t that exactly what happened in 1979?

No, what happened in 1979 was the reversal of the previous overthrow of their government.

The reason it’s an Islamic government is because the puppet we installed destroyed their civil society and the mosques were the only place where any resistance to the imposed despotism could congeal.

Domestic overthrow of the mullahs would ideally restore what MI6 and the CIA screwed up back in 1953 - representative, legitimate, secular government.