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nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

actually no, “we” (the collective rest of the world) came into conflict with Iran less than 100 years ago.

Iran had been a monarchy for thousands of years .

Then: - the last Shah just sucked, people hated him, only unlike in antiquity, democracies existed as a popular option, and - because he was nationalizing the oil, the CIA helped the theocratic Iranian Islamic Revolution depose him

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