what are they bombing yemen for?
what are they bombing yemen for?
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US and Iran and had NOTHING to do with Gaza
Iran is US enemy only because it objects to Israel policies.
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That's not really true. The US staged a coup in Iran in the 50's to take their oil and give power to the shah, and during the Iranian revolution, Carter allowed the same shah to take refuge in the US (against the advice of foreign policy advisors like Kissinger). This outraged the Iranians who assumed that the US was preparing to reinstall him in another coup, leading them to seize the US embassy and take hostages, causing a breakdown of relations. The US went on to support Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war. Israel is a major factor, but there's a lot of bad blood besides that, mostly because of the CIA's actions (which were motivated by oil).
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Yeah the reason Iran hates us is we killed there democracy and overthrew there very popular president. Because of Communist Allegations which weren't true in the slightest.
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100%.
Iran had no problem with America, it only had a problem with Britain, since they had been exploiting them as a colonial power. Truman actually forbid the CIA from doing what it wanted because he understood it to be a democratic, anti-colonial struggle. But the CIA and Eisenhower just had to wait for him to leave office, and Eisenhower came in not really understanding the situation and with both the CIA and Churchill asking him to sign off on it. It ended up being a bargaining chip, the US would overthrow Mossadegh to protect BP's profits, and in exchange the UK would join NATO and support the Korean War. The Iranians got completely fucked over, just for trying to get out from under the thumb of colonial exploitation and reassert control over their own resources (and they weren't the only ones). Part of the reason the coup succeeded was because Mossadegh trusted the US, and they exploited that trust to stab him in the back.
And nowadays, Americans are not only completely ignorant of that history, but even have the audacity to say things like "Islam is incompatible with democracy." Like, motherfucker, you are incompatible with democracy.
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exactly.
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The current US-Iran relationship is independent of that history. It is PNAC neocon origins, and pure Israel designed policy. History has little to do with the sanctions and axis of hate towards Iran, and it is disingenuous to suggest that Iran's resistance is based on long irrelevant issues.
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Chill. I don't disagree with you that the current tensions are heavily impacted by the conflict with Israel, but I'm just supplying additional context that relations have also been bad for decades, for reasons not directly related to that. There's nothing "disingenuous" to providing historical context, and just because tensions currently are related to something else doesn't mean that history is irrelevant or that supplying context is "disingenuous." You don't get to just declare things to be "independent of history," that's not how anything works. If Iran was neutral on Israel, the bad blood would not just disappear overnight.
I'm on your side here, I'm just trying to be accurate about things.
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If Iran was neutral on Israel, the bad blood would not just disappear overnight.
Iran has offered to end its side of the bad blood with the "official western agreed solution" to Palestine.
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Isn't that a point for what I'm saying? I assume that the US did not accept, which doesn't make sense if the US was purely antagonistic because of Israel.
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US official position has always been a 2 state solution. It is Israel doing everything it can to avoid it, with US "unofficial" cover, that has Iran resisting. It is Israel not wanting peace, much more than, or central rather than, US devotion to Israel, the root of the problem.
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I promise you, there is a lot more between the US and Iran than Israel.
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Iran is US enemy only because it objects to Israel policies.
My god the lack of historical awareness in this generation is going to give me an aneurism. I deeply hate you all. Get better.
https://www.cfr.org/timeline/us-relations-iran-1953-2023
Edit: don't bother replying with your nonsense, just read and learn more. I already blocked you and like, half the people here who have learning disabilities.
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The disingenous harrassment on this issue is that "The US must continue to hate Iran because of their successful coup on the Shah, and Iran never congratulated the US for the favour". Hate against Iran today, since 1999/2001, is pure and simple, part of service to Israel agenda.
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