What we are living with is the policy blunders of the Dulles brothers from the early 1950’s when the CIA toppled the elected Iranian Government and put the Shah in power.
BS. Mosaddegh was no Jeffersonian democrat. He was supported by the Communist Tudeh Party that was aligned with the Soviet Union, which had a huge embassy in Tehran. It was all about oil and Soviet expansionism.
In 1953 we were in a major struggle with the Soviets and their surrogates in Korea, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere.