(01-03-2020, 10:24 PM)Predator Wrote:

(01-03-2020, 09:50 PM)mikesez Wrote: 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.

Africa and Asia have more reasons to hate Europe than any of the countries you mentioned towards us ,especially Iran, yet none are actively attacking Europe. Why is that?

The reason is because those countries including Iran are long over things that happened in 1953. Iran has a completely different government now that has no affiliation to the government before or after 1953. Heck, you can say the coup in 1953 helped the current government gain power.

Iran's sole purpose is to destabilize the middle east in order to expand their power and maintain a repressive regime over their own people.

It's only your conspiracy theory that tries to justify Iran taking actions not only to kill us but also other people in the region who have no affiliation with the coup of 1953.

I'm not justifying their actions.  I'm saying that we did cause some of this trouble.  We should definitely defend our guys, we should definitely kill dudes that kill our dudes.  We should definitely stay in Baghdad if the Iraqis will let us, but we should remember this history and be careful in terms of meddling in Iran's government.

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