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Johnathon Haney's avatar

Actually, from 1953 on, Iran was very much an autocracy under the Shah. They DID make a stab at democracy just after WWII but the Abadan Crisis put an end to that. The latter got kicked off in 1951 when their Parliament (with full backing of then-Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq) voted to nationalize the local oil industry, which the British had control of. The results: two years of coups, black propaganda and black ops meddling that left the Shah wholy in charge.

From there, you get the US backing Saddam Hussein, the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s (and the related Iran-Contra scandal), the invasion of Kuwait that ended Hussein's US support and of course the Iraq War. So screwing up with Iran is anything but new.

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Do you really believe Iran when they say they moved all their nuclear materials prior to the attack? How do we know what's true and what isn't? And how will this come back and haunt Trump?

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