[Captain Walker]

In Iran we backed the Shah only to have him overthrown by Islamic Fundamentalists decades later.

I guess that's one way to put it.

We put the guy into office. We didn't like who the Iranian people actually elected (because he became hostile to British oil interests), so the CIA and MI6 instigated a coup that removed the elected official; we then put our puppet into place.

[MinorityRepublican]

Yeah. Who knows? If we did not intervene in 1953, it's quite possible that their government would be similar to Egypt today. We'll have better relations with Iran.

But no, we had to get the CIA involved so we can install our puppet in 1953.