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Originally Posted by P_Funk
A) Don't bring Hitler into this. Using Hitler comparisons is just stupid. Its a whole seperate issue. Hitler was an especially bad person and you are demeaning Hitler by bringing him down to the level of our petty modern despots. Hitler worked hard to be the man that he was, and don't go taking that away from him.
B) The US overthrew a democratically elected government in Iran and threw the Shah into power. Before the 79 revolution Iran was another one of America's manufactured autocracies. You want to talk about who did what before the US did plenty to Iran long before the Embassy event. Just like in Nicaragua, Chile, Panama and many others the US intervened against democracy when it looked that their economic and political interests would be supplanted by self-interest on the part of the local population. How insensitive of them.
I'm sorry, I shouldn't have implied that you didn't know what had happened. It just seems that you either choose to ignore what happened to lead to the 79 revolution or you simply don't care. America has been dicking with Iran's sovereignty ever since the end of the 2nd world war. Cause and effect foes back farther than 1979.
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A. I didn't bring hitler into this, history did. You're conveniently omiting the fact that the WW2 allies were forced to occupy Iran to keep it from joining the axis powers.
B. You're also omitting the fact that the "democraticaly elected government" you mention was actually one person, Mohammad Mosaddeq, who was removed from power after he illegally dissolved a democratically elected parliment to avoid impeachment.
C. You're omitting the fact that when Khomeni siezed power the first thing he did was to remove all the political freedoms and social improvement programs installed by the Shahs government such as:
Extending the Right to Vote to Women, gone
Land Reforms Program and Abolishing Feudalism, gone
Nationalization of Forests and Pasturelands, gone:
Privatization of the Government Owned Enterprises, gone.
Profit Sharing for industrial workers in private sector enterprises, gone
Formation of the Literacy Corps, gone
Formation of the Health Corps, gone.
Formation of the Reconstruction and Development Corps, gone.
Nationalization of all Water Resources, gone
Urban and Rural Modernization and Reconstruction, gone.
Didactic Education Reforms, gone.
Workers' Right to Own Shares in the Industrial Complexes, gone.
Price Stabilization and campaign against unreasonable profiteering, gone.
Free and Compulsory Education and a daily free meal for all children, gone.
Free Food for Needy Mothers and for all newborn babies up to the age of two, gone.
Introduction of Social Security and National Insurance, gone.
Since then Khomenis thug government has turned one of the most progressive nations in the entire middle east into a backwards and oppressive theocracy whose people are little more then feudal peasants, living and dying at the whim of the mullahs, but in your mind the west are the bad guys for not continuing Irans nuclear program after the Islamists came to power, right?
