Anyone who doesn’t let the western billionaires exploit their country gets invaded. That is all.
What makes Iran the big bad boogeyman of the middle east? Don't the Saudi's have more power and allies? Even Saddam was afraid of them so much so he said he had WMD to thwart an Iran.
Submitted 2 hours ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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guycls@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Ariselas@piefed.ca 2 hours ago
And the Saudi’s have their own billionaires and more than happy to let a few westerners come play sometimes.
Stormy@thelemmy.club 1 hour ago
Thats an understatement. The US presidents advisor lives there.
supersquirrel@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Because Israel and the US for shared as well as seperate reasons existentially need a villain to wage a “holy” war against.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Iran was never really the boogeyman, USA made them into it, because Iran wanted to control their own oil. This goes back to the early 50’s, where CIA undermined the Iranian democracy to instate the Shah to allow Americans to profit from the oil.
When Iran rebelled against the Shah in 1979, there was an attack on the US embassy by civilians, with 66 American hostages, USA was CLEARLY A HOSTILE force, so it was very understandable the public was mad at USA. Despite that after almost 2 years all the hostages were released. But USA has held Iran accountable ever since. despite it was not an official act, and despite AFAIK no Americans were killed. Yet USA has held an embargo supported by allies for 50 years because of that.
So by USA reasoning it’s OK to hijack an entire country, dismantling their democracy with lies and fake terrorist attacks, and then take the country hostage for 20n years. But holding some 60 Americans prisoners for their participation for 2 years, makes Iran a terrorist nation!!
USA being a force in the world for democracy is a lie, what they are a force for is US profits and nothing more.
USA continue their crimes against Iran, with false claims of Iran trying to make an atom bomb, despite all international intelligence reports that it was against religious principles of Iranian theocracy.The US and thereby the west treatment of Iran has been insanely unfair, just as it has been against Cuba.
All civilized countries need to stand up against such international atrocities. Without USA Iran would probably still be a Democracy!!!Lasherz12@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Iran has had a lot of internal strife, but I think any country under endless sanctions would. It’s relatively clear that most of their problems come from foreign actors like Israel, UK, and the US. Saudi is the fake Muslim country who aligns with the west while genociding other muslims, and Iran is seen as much better representation.
That being said, I think they have a case of young thought vs old thought, and had we not attacked them then I think things would have turned out better for everyone. But like many conflicts Trump had started, we had pedophilia to cover up and blackmail to avoid, so here we are.
Maiq@piefed.zip 2 hours ago
On 19 August 1953 a coup d’état overthrew the Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh, strengthening the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran.[5] It was instigated by the United Kingdom (MI6), under the name Operation Boot[6][7][8][9] and by the United States (CIA), under the name TP-AJAX Project[10] or Operation Ajax. A key motive was to protect British oil interests in Iran after Mosaddegh had nationalized the country’s oil industry in 1951.[11][12][13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat