Posted: Jun 18, 2010 4:29 am
FACT-MAN-2 wrote:
Backlash from whom? England? The USA? Both working in concert? Two entities that had no business meddling in the internal affairs of Iran, as in none, zero, zip, nada?
Yes.
Mossadegh had a mandate from the Iranian electorate, which he likely could have leveraged into success for the reforms he had in mind.
True, but irrelevant to my initial comment.
And don't forget, it is precisely the foreign meddling that led to the Shah's dictatorship and significant US military presence in the country, both of which rubbed Iranian youth the wrong way and produced the 1979 revolution. As I said earlier, the Americans handed Iran to the Mullahs on a silver platter. In their arrogance they were utterly surprised by the revolution and seem still to be so, how could this happen? The dopes can't even see their own folly. And today Iran has them twisted like a pretzel all worried about them. The Mullahs are surely laughing.
Yes. Though there's not a whole lot of difference between a secular nationalist government and a religious nationalist government when it comes to global politics (there's some difference with the rationality of leaders, but I'm pretty sure that the Iranian leaders are rational - it's not as though they're insane nutjobs like the Qutbists).