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To: bushpilot

What right does Bush or the US have to determine what form of government other countries should have?

If a majority of the Iranian people wanted to restore the monarchy, by democratic principles alone they should be able to do so.


162 posted on 01/27/2005 9:12:04 AM PST by royalcello
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To: royalcello

The joke in all this is the presumption of a ruling dynasty. The shah we all came to know and love came to power in a coup d'etat in 1953.
The legally elected PM (a Dr. Massadegh - TIME's Man of the Year in '51) broke the back of the UK's sweetheart oil deal. The UK sued in the Hague and lost. Within two years MI6 and the CIA orchestrated the coup and put Reza in charge. That lasted only two days before the people of Iran chased him out. The CIA used the Army to put him back in. After thirty years of the Shah (and SAVAK) the people of Iran threw him out again.

Certain folks here like to paint the Reza years as a progressive utopia and place the blame for the revolution squarely on US shoulders. I've yet to read of any revolution, in any country, at any time in history that was executed by a populace that was content, respected, safe and hopeful.

The folks who want to bring the Reza "dynasty" back to power remind me of the elements in the Bay of Pigs who were holdovers from Batista's regime. Iran threw the shah out, I don't want to see one drop of US blood spilt to put his son back in his palace.

If Iran has had enough they will make a change, they've done it before.


168 posted on 01/27/2005 12:55:48 PM PST by wtc911 ("I would like at least to know his name.")
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To: royalcello

These people have problems understanding other cultures


179 posted on 01/28/2005 9:32:34 AM PST by F14 Pilot (Democracy is a process not a product)
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