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GiqueCee

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7. NONE of this would have happened...
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 11:08 AM
Yesterday

... if we – meaning the USA – hadn't agreed to help Britain depose the democratically elected Mossadegh, who refused to let the Brits lay claim to Iran's oil reserves, so they got the Shah, Reza Pahlavi, and his SAVAK, which made our ICE goons look like a bunch of Campfire Girls on a picnic. So Iranians – who are not "Brown People", but Caucasians like us, if ya wanna get technical about it – have very good reasons to distrust us.
But that's the kind of sordid history that Republicans want to erase.

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