We can thank Jimmy Carter for today’s Iran.
SOMEBODY remembers! Thank you!
> We can thank Jimmy Carter for today’s Iran. <
Yes, indeed. And Bush II made a bad situation worse. Saddam Hussein was no friend of Israel (obviously). But Saddam was a counterbalance to Iran. Bush II did Iran a great favor by removing him.
Actually you can thank Allen Dulles and the CIA. Iran had an elected leader. He made the mistake of deciding the British should not own and control all the oil in the country. The Brits started running around screaming he was probably a communist, so the CIA overthrew him on behalf of British Petroleum.
So we installed the Shah who created Savak and shocked the nuts off every opposition man etc, and 25 years later he was overthrown in the Iranian revolution.
So really, the problem of Iran was created by the CIA, in 1953, on behalf of the Brits.