[grania]

If current news is to be believed, this coup attempt might be complicated. The claims that the cleric responsible for it is in exile in Pennsylvania have not been effectively denied.

How can we be sure the US wasn't in some way mischief-making? Everywhere else, that was the case.

[dfwgator]

Remember that the Ayatollah Khomeini was in exile in France when the Shah was deposed.

But that being said, I still say it was an Erdogan “Reichstag Fire.”