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While this a great piece of writing that details the US -Iran Events in the 1970's it fails to mention the 1954 US Intervention in Iran that took down a democratically elected leader and replaced him with the Shah who failed to extend democrat rights to his people. The people in Iran remember 1954 as if it were yesterday and the Revolution just began today.

Pahlavi was pro-American, and domestically oppressive.

If anyone thinks the dear old Shahinshah was oppressive, they should have tried to have a mild disagreemnt with the Ayatollah Khomeini's government. The Shah's biggest mistake was not (supp-) oppressing the islamists hard enough. He supported the Ayatollah in luxurious exile instead of hanging his scrawny carcass from an expressway overpass next to a blown-up mosque.

How quickly we forget that the reason Iran's "Democratic" government had to go was that it was going communist.

Fact of life: Russia wants Persia.
Always has. Always will.
Doesn't matter if it's the
Soviets, the Czar, or this Putin cobra.