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thesquanderer

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8. It was 1953 when the U.S and Britain created regime change in Iran. Basically, 1979 was the blowback.

Reply to Crowman2009 (Reply #5)

Sun Jun 22, 2025, 11:11 PM

Jun 22

In the end, our regime change worked out very poorly.

As did our more recent attempts at regime change in Iraq and Afghanistan, of course.

Stupidity springs eternal.

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