We are still paying for Jimmy Carter’s complacency.
We abandoned The Shaw just as the issue was in balance. A double tap to the head and one to the chest when he announced (or better yet before) his return to Iran by an undercover CIA agent would have possibly changed the future and prevented millions of deaths.
But no the CIA can’t kill anyone , that would just be immoral (unless it’s Central America or a rising conservative leader or….).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini#/media/File:Portrait_of_Ruhollah_Khomeini.jpg
Shah! not Shaw unless you’re talking about the dead actor Robert Shaw!
Interesting if Iran was overthrown just before Carter dies in hospice.