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mahatmakanejeeves

(69,151 posts) Wed Mar 4, 2026, 09:27 AM Yesterday

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Bill Grueskin
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At CBS News, where staffers are apparently barred from reading history books, the hostilities between Iran and the US don’t begin until 1979.

7:01 AM · Mar 4, 2026

At CBS News, where staffers are apparently barred from reading history books, the hostilities between Iran and the US donâ€™t begin until 1979.
— Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) 2026-03-04T12:01:08.838Z

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At CBS News, staffers are apparently barred from reading history books. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday OP

Where every day is leave your brain at home day. C_U_L8R Yesterday #1

Not to mention that many Iranians lump the US in with "The West", which did them dirty long before the US ... eppur_se_muova Yesterday #2

Iran's present-day problems with "the West" go all the way back to the 1917 Balfour Declaration. sop Yesterday #3

Iran's first Parliament predated that. The "Great Powers" wanted it gone. eppur_se_muova Yesterday #4

I long for the days of Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather Grim Chieftain Yesterday #5

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