[thoughtomator]

> the Shah of Iran fell to the Islamic Revolution, ending a tradition of monarchic rule that had persisted in Iran for thousands of years since the rule of Cyrus the Great.

Mohammad Mosaddegh would have been very surprised to hear about that.

But I guess war propaganda doesn’t need to concern itself with measly easily-checked facts.

[Olog-hai]

Yes, Mosaddegh tried to be a usurper indeed.

The Shah held his position from 1941 until he was deposed by that disgusting “revolution”.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I guess war propaganda doesn’t need to concern itself with measly easily-checked facts.

I think

a tradition of monarchic rule that had persisted in Iran for thousands of years

is a vague enough construction to be more or less unfalsifiable.

[BlackElk]

Mohammad Mossadegh was a communist pig and stooge of the soviets and thus Iran (and the rest of the world) was A LOT BETTER off when he was overthrown by the CIA and British Secret Service, arrested, convicted, imprisoned and finally held in house arrest until dead and buried in his own home and permanently denied office. Churchill had presciently warned Eisenhower of Mossadegh's inclinations towards the soviets. It would have been better still had he been publicly and memorably and splashily executed together with his key co-conspirators.

Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlevi's son ought to be installed as the new shah, the criminals misruling Iran should be executed en masse and normality restored.