alt Hacker NewsTo add, the primary reason the US supported Iraq was because it didn't want Iran to send oil to the USSR.
This was because the US didn't want a communist nation to have a good economy.
That's the story of a bunch of the CIAs operations.
To add, the primary reason the US supported Iraq was because it didn't want Iran to send oil to the USSR.
This was because the US didn't want a communist nation to have a good economy.
That's the story of a bunch of the CIAs operations.
Iran itself in its current form is a continuous line of failures of CIA and MI6 that led to their revolution against highly unpopular shah that was undemocratically installed only by those powers.
Why do you think back then the us embassy situation evolved as it did. 'Embassy' my ass, full of cia folks regardless what shallow hollywood flicks try to propagate, meddling with internal affairs for profit and power of british and americans, while impoverished common locals suffered greatly.
As usual with cia it backfired tremendously, made huge mess for decades in entire region, killed gazillion of innocents but since there aint no us citizens its just some annoying background noise of some brown 'people', right.
Anybody with above-maga intelligence can piece together those few wikipedia articles, but egos got hurt so its highly emotional topic for americans. If at least you guys learned from your collosal mistakes...