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[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

This is what Iran looked like in the 1970s, before the Islamic Regime:

[-] DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago

*Before the U.S assassinated their democratic secular leader who didn't want foreign companies owning all their resources so the people in their own country weren't dirt poor like Africa.

[-] tootoughtoremember@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I believe you're talking about the CIA backed coup in 1953.

This picture would have been taken during the period where Iran was ruled by the Western puppet Shah.

But the point still stands, tough to imagine the Iranian Revolution of 1979 if there had never been a Western coup and over 25 years of effectively Western rule.

[-] DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Yes I didn't clarify that but I know the history a decent bit. They installed an internationalist far right government and the Iranians overthrew that government, leading to the modern state.

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