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GiqueCee

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3. I suspect that the Persian memory is long...
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 02:29 PM
Mar 31

... and that there is a lengthy lexicon of obscenities in Farsi that is reserved just for the American government and the travesties it has visited upon the Iranians.
At the top of that list of crimes might be the abomination that occurred in 1953. The newly formed CIA, which grew out of the WWII-era OSS, and was quite full of itself, agreed to help Britain, which still thought it had a God-given right to colonize and rob targeted countries of their natural resources, decreed that they would usurp Iran's oil reserves for itself, and asked for US help in doing so.
They deposed the democratically elected leader, Mohammad Mossadegh, held him under house arrest, and installed the Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi. The Shah's bona fides were questionable, to put it mildly, and his secret police, the SAVAK, were murderous monsters.
Bottom line: Trump's Fart of a Deal will not be met with joyous hosannahs in Tehran. Quite the opposite, we can pretty much be assured.
Trump is a blundering imbecile who is in WAY over his head, and psychotic assholes like Nosferatu Miller and Pete Kegsbreath will only make matters worse.

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