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[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Your point? It, definitely isn't as bad as Saudi Arabia and we provide arms and weapons to them to destroy other countries we don't like. How about we fuck off, and leave them alone, regime or not.

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh but wait, that would mean we wouldn't be following the 7 country memo.

[–]useless_aether 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

back then, after the shah, the cia picked the islamic republic as the new state form, exactly because it was the most antagonistic towards the commies (both the soviets and the arab baath party).

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Negative. Carter trusted that nice man the Ayatollah. Iranian leftists, as in Europe, allied with Islam against the Right. Then the Muslims turned on the Left and murdered or exiled them all. Oops.