[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I guess war propaganda doesn’t need to concern itself with measly easily-checked facts.

I think

a tradition of monarchic rule that had persisted in Iran for thousands of years

is a vague enough construction to be more or less unfalsifiable.

[thoughtomator]

The claim that the overthrow of the Shah ended that tradition is falsifiable, and easily shown to be false, as a review of the election of Mossadeagh and Operation Ajax can demonstrate.