(01-03-2020, 09:16 PM)Predator Wrote:

(01-03-2020, 08:46 PM)mikesez Wrote: I mean it's pretty clear Germany was the aggressor in the whole world wars thing. They started it

I think the point of his post is that we had no history with Iran/Persia until 1953, and we did something super bad to them.  We started it.

You are blaming this on something that happened 70 years ago? If that were a logical reason, why isn't Africa or Asia attacking Europe?

They are the aggressors now and they are not using 1953 as a pretense for their actions

It's true that the Islamic Republic doesn't teach their kids much about 1953.  The mullahs didn't love either Mossadeq or the Shah.  They don't want to make Mossadeq a martyr when they teach history.
But, maybe it's just me emphasizing America too much, I don't think the mullahs end up teaching their children that America is Satan without us interfering in 1953, and without us giving "our" shah a free hand to punish the mullahs for so long.
When you go back to the 50s, you see that a lot of countries besides Iran have reason to hate us.  Vietnam, Guatemala, Haiti, Cuba, South Africa, Angola, Chile... but they mostly realized that it was best to let the past be in the past. I mean Cuba still has beef with us but not nearly as bad as Iran. Iran could let it go too.  But unfortunately we can't make them let it go.  No amount of force would ever work.

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