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0 pointsRinzler891y ago0 comments

Edit after walthamstow's Feedback: The Islamic revolution which was a consequence of the CIAs interference?

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The Islamic revolution was blowback from the CIA/MI6 coup of the 1950s, and was not desired or engineered by the US.

The US and UK were actually quite happy with the Shah they installed, he allowed western access to Iran's oil.

Edit: the post I'm replying to has been heavily edited.

They overthrew the democratically elected PM in favour of the autocratic Shah and both the West and Iran are still paying the price. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9...

spwa41y ago

By that standard, the taliban are the result of socialism. Really:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Afghanistan#Contemp...

The taliban came to power by stopping socialist massacres, most famously in a "torture prison" the socialists built. That is what made people choose their side. They killed less people in open warfare than socialist revolutionaries did in peacetime, and much less than the Soviets did when "helping the socialist revolution spread".

Despite what happened since, sadly, I think you'll agree things never got as bad in Afghanistan as they did during the socialist revolution they had there. Not even now.

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AmericanChopper1y ago

Well not intentionally engineered by the CIA, but definitely the result of their engineering. Much like the rise to power of our brave allies the Afghani mujahideen, and many others…

walthamstow1y ago

Yes, that is what blowback means.

Rinzler89OP1y ago

Your comment removed me of this

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z04vqrSNaB4

Rinzler89OP1y ago

Sure. Doesn't that make the US and UK responsible for the blowback against their direct interference?

walthamstow1y ago

You've edited your post to make it seem like this was what you said to begin with, but it wasn't

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Paradigma111y ago

The revolution was a quarter of a century after the Shah came to power. It is a bit silly to state counterfactuals over such a long period in such an unstable and violent region. The Shah's reign was pretty popular during the first decade, it went quickly downhill after that. Mossadegh was only prime minister for 2 years. Two extrapolate in any way from this is ridiculous.

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walthamstow1y ago

The Islamic revolution was blowback from the CIA/MI6 coup of the 1950s, and was not desired or engineered by the US.

The US and UK were actually quite happy with the Shah they installed, he allowed western access to Iran's oil.

Edit: the post I'm replying to has been heavily edited.

berkeleynerd1y ago

They overthrew the democratically elected PM in favour of the autocratic Shah and both the West and Iran are still paying the price. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9...

spwa41y ago

By that standard, the taliban are the result of socialism. Really:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Afghanistan#Contemp...

Despite what happened since, sadly, I think you'll agree things never got as bad in Afghanistan as they did during the socialist revolution they had there. Not even now.

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AmericanChopper1y ago

Well not intentionally engineered by the CIA, but definitely the result of their engineering. Much like the rise to power of our brave allies the Afghani mujahideen, and many others…

walthamstow1y ago

Yes, that is what blowback means.

Rinzler89OP1y ago

Your comment removed me of this

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z04vqrSNaB4

Rinzler89OP1y ago

Sure. Doesn't that make the US and UK responsible for the blowback against their direct interference?

walthamstow1y ago

You've edited your post to make it seem like this was what you said to begin with, but it wasn't

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Paradigma111y ago

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