https://x.com/goddeketal/status/1933941726927896879 > 70 years ago, Iran looked just like any Western country. > Short skirts, rock’n’roll, open universities. > It’s 1953. Iran elects a secular socialist: Mohammad Mossadegh. > He nationalizes oil. That pisses off BP. > Cold War excuse. > CIA and MI6 stage a coup. Operation Ajax. > Mossadegh is overthrown. > They install the Shah, a brutal US-backed dictator. > Secret police. Torture chambers. > Iran turns into a puppet state. > People are that desperate, they turn to Khomeini, an exiled cleric, promising independence and dignity. > 1979: Islamic Revolution. > The Shah flees. > US embassy stormed. Hostage crisis. > America never forgives. > Arms Saddam Hussein.
