friendly reminder iran was a liberal democracy before the cia-backed coup in the 50s which the islamic revolution was a direct response to - ThreadSky

acabylonbee.bsky.social • 55 days ago

friendly reminder iran was a liberal democracy before the cia-backed coup in the 50s which the islamic revolution was a direct response to

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Friendly reminder..Iran in the 70's...Iran now.

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sghendricks.bsky.social•55 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1TB5V7HLqYs

truth-is-freedom.bsky.social•55 days ago

it was republicans who did that.

they hate democracy.

pennyflynn.bsky.social•55 days ago

The countryside was pretty Conservative, but yes, the cities, at least Tehran, was more liberal, and Mossadegh was a democratic leader.

i-zelle.bsky.social•55 days ago

This was only a representation of the city, not the entire country. Outside of the major population areas things were more religiously conservative.

djvagirl.bsky.social•55 days ago

So sad 😩😢

johocas5.bsky.social•55 days ago

Project 2025 is exactly the same. Based on the same, tired Old Testament doctrine. I wish people would understand that fundamentalist Christianity, Islam, and Judaism are offshoots of the same Abrahamic religious texts.

johocas5.bsky.social•55 days ago

If you look at the core support for female oppression everywhere, you’ll find the same group: str8 men.

johocas5.bsky.social•55 days ago

Not long ago, women in all three religions looked no different from each other.

benjamungbeans.bsky.social•55 days ago

No.

kingharkinian.bsky.social•55 days ago

That’s true. If people understood that alot would change overnight……………

thetimchannel.bsky.social•55 days ago

We were training Iranian fighter pilots while I was in the Air Force in 76

oldsputnik.bsky.social•55 days ago

Put my hands up. Yes I remember Tehran and Kabul with western dressed women and clean shaven men.

sheepflame.bsky.social•55 days ago

CIA-backed, CIA-orchestrated, potato pohtahtoe.

infamousmat.bsky.social•55 days ago

The Brits & British Petroleum (BP) were the ring leaders on this one. Kermit Roosevelt was a gun for hire basically.

sheepflame.bsky.social•55 days ago

Yeah, I feel like if we had documentary footage of all the baddies, it would play like a hard-to-summarize Veep comedy of confusion. Just mean the CIA was very hands-on, generating fake street protests and whatnot, not only distributing cash.

missymouse905.bsky.social•55 days ago

It was instigated by the United States (under the name TP-AJAX Project or Operation Ajax) and the United Kingdom (under the name Operation Boot).

infamousmat.bsky.social•55 days ago

It was not. UK instigated it, had the most to lose over nationalization of AOIC (later BP); Truman admin opposed any regime change. As late as 1952, US was looking at unilaterally trying to cut its own deal w Mosaddegh. UK intel/Gov solicited the change. CIA has to own their bad part of the mess too

sjcurtis.bsky.social•55 days ago

Exactly! All our government’s interference in other governments around the world is what’s coming back to bite us now. If you want to blame someone, blame our government, ever since the 40’s.

meritcandour.bsky.social•55 days ago

The people of Iran wanted Socialism,
and they wanted to nationalize their
natural resources.
WHO DOESN’T?
The same happened to them as
happens to any who tries it.
Massive, deadly repression by the
forces of reaction.
The forces of reaction don’t always
win, & that’s what makes them
go crazy~

holdontoyourbutts.bsky.social•55 days ago

And for this....I now follow you. Thank you for this. Reposting.

cdnhelp.bsky.social•55 days ago

All was destroyed for oil don’t forget. American “national interests” and that same mentality was applied to Venezuela and still true in Iraq. It’s a reminder of the power of the API and the destruction it leaves behind. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦💪💪💪💪🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

wailau.bsky.social•55 days ago

Here comes the US!

mrxexon.bsky.social•55 days ago

We kept the Shah in power beyond his welcome. All for oil...

The people were kept in check by SAVAK, a secret police force. This made the Shah a hated man. The people needed help to throw him/ and us off.

Nobody answered but radical Islam. And the people went from the frying pan into the fire...

nkflygirl.bsky.social•55 days ago

Can confirm. 💔

I joined demonstrations against the Shah’s murderous regime.

yusinfinity.bsky.social•55 days ago

To be fair there were a number of groups working against the shah. They included socialists and environmentalists. The fundamentalists were able to organize enough to take control in the chaos.

mrxexon.bsky.social•55 days ago

But none of them had the ability to throw off Uncle Sam...

yusinfinity.bsky.social•55 days ago

AFAIK it was a collective effort. The fundamentalists were not even a majority. They just happened to be organized and take direction from the top while the rest were rest were not as aligned. A good parallel is the Bolsheviks (literally means big) who were initially much smaller than the Mensheviks

s1mplen0mad.bsky.social•55 days ago

Funny how oil is always involved somehow, too. 🤔

mrxexon.bsky.social•55 days ago

I used to tell people that when they're standing there hearing gas swizzle into their tank, there's another additive to gasoline nobody likes to talk about.

Blood.

garveyjo.bsky.social•55 days ago

Fully agree - the west kept the Shah in power and his greed destroyed him - the people fought back - sadly they got an even worse deal 🥴

vanessachaland.bsky.social•55 days ago

Fundamentalist "progress"?

tuneraider.bsky.social•55 days ago

Yup, they have a long history of of it. Repeated the same mistakes in Afganistan and Iraq

thefullcooler.bsky.social•55 days ago

I think about this history all the time

martianuscapella.bsky.social•55 days ago

…and Nemer united Lower and Upper Egypt together under the dual crown.

corgicommissar.bsky.social•55 days ago

They committed the most cardinal sin of the Cold War "we would like to purchase and own the resource extraction facilities on our land from our former colonial overlords" which is a one way ticket to getting your shit CIA'd.

k8delgado.bsky.social•55 days ago

This will be our fate if we don’t fight MAGA now.

reasolife.bsky.social•55 days ago

Iran was colonized by western colonialists in 70 and now colonized by Arabs and indirectly by western colonialists.
West have not supported Iranians and women's revolt against mullas but support servant Reza Shah's son.

kingharkinian.bsky.social•55 days ago

That’s right, and that’s why we need to destroy Iran. Or else the Cheeto in chief will do the same thing here………

brokensea.bsky.social•55 days ago

URBAN Iran and Afghanistan were very Western and liberal.
RURAL Iran and Afghanistan were the conservative religious extremist society we see now.
Much the way the US is going.

zeebest1.bsky.social•55 days ago

U.S. also pushed Iran into the arms of China&Russia when they manufactured that coup to place a puppet leader for their oil. Sanctioning them for almost 5 decades now, they had no choice. The hard liners took over after the revolution. Even so, Iranian people always felt admiration for Americans.

lgbtally.bsky.social•55 days ago

And Trump also hates the CIA isn’t life complicated?

cookiesboy.bsky.social•55 days ago

Yes the important part in that the US citizens supported the Shaw being removed. The American people were fed the exact propaganda needed to do that. Gulp Gulp think for yourself and check twice with instant information you have now before you swallow people.

clearlakedoc.bsky.social•55 days ago

Huh? The Shah was taken out by islamacists. Gulp gulp yourself dolt

cookiesboy.bsky.social•55 days ago

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/carterthe-president-who-betrayed-shah-to-khomeini/

clearlakedoc.bsky.social•55 days ago

Lolololol the Times of Israel? No dude, try again. The people overthrew the Shah for being a pos dictator. Lololol JC didnt cause that. Nazisrael should have done their own work for once

cookiesboy.bsky.social•55 days ago

I can see history isn’t your strength. It’s impossible to help those that think they are entitled to their own set of facts. Israel is the closest journalistic source to the facts in that part of the world. But similar reporting can be found in US. It sounds like you have strong antisemitic views.

clearlakedoc.bsky.social•54 days ago

Lololol similar reporting can be found in the us🤣🤣🤣🤣 Sure, on fux snooze? Epoch Times? OANN? Newsmaxx? Lololololololol boy youre not up for this

clearlakedoc.bsky.social•54 days ago

Nah, i gaf about jews. Fuq nazisrael. You can fuq right off cookiboy. Id advise you to just walk away. Otherwise your liddke feels are gonna get hurt

clearlakedoc.bsky.social•54 days ago

Youre blind but think you can see lololol. I dont recall asking for your help, nor do i need ut. Lmao nazisrael looks after nazisrael. Period.

americansilo.bsky.social•55 days ago

Just for accuracy, Iranian women need not wear the black, full body *chador* as the picture might indicate. In fact, modest western-like clothing is fine out in public with a pastel *hijab* to cover most, but not necessarily all of her hair.

But don't go out without the hijab. Bad things.

antirepublican.bsky.social•55 days ago

Could also be US IN THE 70s and US in 2030.

rua-ri.bsky.social•54 days ago

Thanks a lot America!

davesnothereman1.bsky.social•55 days ago

Thw CIA operative who lead that coup d'etat (in August, (1953) was Kermit Roosevelt, grandson of former U.S. President, Teddy Roosevelt.

whiterose3.bsky.social•55 days ago

Yup. Americans have long pushed the middle-east more conservative and more toward Islam due to our "liberal democratic" values and our big talk on "human rights" after installing a most brutal, violent, tortuous dictatorship.

There is a reason why we are referred to as the "devils of the west."

ausbana.bsky.social•55 days ago

America then and now

faab64.bsky.social•55 days ago

It's funny that they don't show Saudi Arabia from then and now anytime either

davidicouldbewrong.bsky.social•55 days ago

Our interference usually backfires on us. https://cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/03/it-is-government-by-chaos.html?m=1

tonezib.bsky.social•55 days ago

And had to give up 50% of their oil profits.

frencharoo.bsky.social•55 days ago

The CIA screwed up a lot in those days !

greatfausto.bsky.social•55 days ago

The Persians haven’t started a war in centuries… they just want to be left alone

speckonblue.bsky.social•55 days ago

Put of weakness, not for the lack of trying

infamousmat.bsky.social•55 days ago

Unfortunately, the Persians aren’t running Iran anymore.

greatfausto.bsky.social•55 days ago

Iranians ARE Persians…. Just because a British stooge renamed it in 1935 doesn’t change who they are..

infamousmat.bsky.social•55 days ago

Thanks for the absolutely unnecessary correction. It doesn’t change my point, PERSIANS are not Islamist Arabs, who the Ayatollah’s regime in charge is made up of & caters too. Go ahead & find another country’s flag that has a foreign language on it (Iranian flag has Arabic not Persian)…I’ll wait.

greatfausto.bsky.social•55 days ago

Just as America is transitioning into a theocratic dictatorship scenario not unlike a John Carpenter movie.. Because of a Republican minority…

danmayfair7.bsky.social•55 days ago

jgisslen.bsky.social•55 days ago

This is similar to the Handmaiden’s tale future the Christofascists are constructing in the US.

melissjpeltier.bsky.social•55 days ago

Well not really. It was a parliamentary monarchy. And for some, it was a brutal one.

rcgorilla.bsky.social•55 days ago

Reminder, Iran was a secular democracy before the west staged a coup.

alonaloni.bsky.social•55 days ago

The cold war, we made a lot of mistakes...

Are you suggesting that the current leadership of Iran is beneficial to its citizens and the region?

Bombing them isn't the answer...

clarenceaboddicker.bsky.social•55 days ago

There is a great movie that looks at this period in Irans history.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808417/

digigraphs.bsky.social•55 days ago

Was it much better than this for Iran and the world? 100%. Was it liberal democracy? Are you ducking kidding me? Read! 😂

melissjpeltier.bsky.social•55 days ago

Thank you.
It was a monarchy with a semblance of a parliament.

digigraphs.bsky.social•55 days ago

A parliament as powerful as the current regime’s parliament! You know, there are currently elections for presidency and parliament, and also “assembly of experts”! But the problem is you can’t be a candidate for them if you’re not approved by another assembly! Such a beautiful democracy 😂

clearlakedoc.bsky.social•55 days ago

Yeah it was compared to the religious weirdos in place now

digigraphs.bsky.social•55 days ago

I get your point. The current regime is the worst. Maybe a few other governments have been able to ruin a country and its region this bad. That still doesn’t make Shah’s government a liberal democracy. It was a dictatorship and a good one that everyone’s missing 😜

clearlakedoc.bsky.social•55 days ago

Brah it wasnt the Shah, he came after. They had a democratically elected Prez. HE was deposed by CIA at bequest of Ike and Great Britain. For sure the Shah was corrupt and fascist, but he wasnt toppled by the US, the US loved him. I act worked w a gal whos mom was related. Her da was an oil guy

beragon.bsky.social•55 days ago

Take comfort that the Cold War and in fact the entire 20th century turns out to have been a mistake. MAGA is obliterating that history and surrendering to Russia. So we have that going for us.

mightymo2008.bsky.social•55 days ago

Women in Iran use to go to college & work. I fear with the current Maga party this would happen here in America. The Handmaid’s Tale! Some men would prefer women to go backwards in time! No rights.

bamajennie.bsky.social•52 days ago

The good ole days when their terrible deeds were hidden.

djzaber.bsky.social•55 days ago

Hard to take fossil fuels and other resources from liberal democracies. Much easier to install a violent autocratic regime with easily corrupted leaders. Not so easy when the social reaction is religious extremism taking over.

davidlight.bsky.social•55 days ago

Amen. The USA was directly responsible for the Iranian Revolution.

kuroinazuma.bsky.social•55 days ago

CIA=Christians In Action

bigtparker.bsky.social•55 days ago

It's because we really hate Democracy.

agegarton.bsky.social•55 days ago

The Americans have had their fingers in so many such pies.

felidia.bsky.social•55 days ago

Perhaps, but the Shah held thousands in torture prisons. It wasn’t all roses and rainbows.

speckonblue.bsky.social•55 days ago

Do not side with ayatollahs.
They hijacked an anti-shah revolution that was a backlash to installing the shah.
Bolsheviks did not topple the tzar too. They toppled a weak and imperfect, but a democracy.

patter76.bsky.social•55 days ago

Soon those will be pictures of American women, if our country continues on the path we're on.

maryamb.bsky.social•55 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/ladanboroumand.bsky.social/post/3lgvyypunsk2e

josselynn.bsky.social•55 days ago

WOW! Very sad! 😡😥

latentsensible.bsky.social•55 days ago

Post pictures of what America will look like in 2 years!

latentsensible.bsky.social•54 days ago

jerryarmstrong.bsky.social•55 days ago

🎯

meemaa1.bsky.social•55 days ago

Friendly reminder on abortion laws:

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/2019-05-26/ty-article-magazine/.premium/alabama-iran-or-saudi-arabia-we-checked-where-abortion-laws-are-better-for-women/0000017f-e669-df2c-a1ff-fe7913e80000

outcast-ofgrid.bsky.social•55 days ago

So Afghanistan....

i-zelle.bsky.social•55 days ago

This was most likely taken in Kabul which was more liberal that the rest of the country. Go out into the rural areas around the same year and women would be dressed conservatively per religion.

k8delgado.bsky.social•55 days ago

This will be the fate of women in the US if we don’t stop this administration & the wanna be billionaire king.

missymouse905.bsky.social•55 days ago

More US interference and then a cowardly retreat after Trump surrendered in secret to 55,000 Taliban.

Maybe the US could just stay at home and fix their own problems?

6ixth.bsky.social•55 days ago

well now the USA has a Russia backed coup…

everythingisgrate.bsky.social•55 days ago

The same shit is gonna happen here.

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