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You don't think Iran's situation is also mostly its own doing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%2527%C3%A9... A key motive was to protect British oil interests in Iran after Mossadegh nationalized and refused to concede to western oil demands.
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You don't think Iran's situation is also mostly its own doing?
No, you see the instant a western power interferes with a region, all agency is immediately stripped from every single person there. It's really sad, they all become puppets or automatons reacting purely to external stimulus.
I grew up in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, a region full of natural resources and, thankfully, aquifers and natural water reservoirs. However, centuries of extraction mismanagement and, more recently, over exploration of mineral resources puts these water resources into jeopardy. (Other problems include mining in open pits and with sludge dams that led to two of the worse environmental disasters in the world i…
Maybe it’s selection bias but: The saddest thing about Iran I’ve noticed is the stark contrast between the current state of the country and the intelligence of the people I’ve met from this country.
Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple. - Bill Mollison
Simple as that.
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You don't think Iran's situation is also mostly its own doing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%2527%C3%A9... A key motive was to protect British oil interests in Iran after Mossadegh nationalized and refused to concede to western oil demands.
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You don't think Iran's situation is also mostly its own doing?
The number of countries messing around in that region is long.... From the US, Russia and china to local powers like Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Iran themselves. Either you're a scholar studying the region, if not your comment feels naive at best
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%2527%C3%A9... A key motive was to protect British oil interests in Iran after Mossadegh nationalized and refused to concede to western oil demands.
This is sort of a bad and inaccurate summary of a much more complicated situation. Mossadegh was trying to dissolve parliament and was in conflict with the Shah before the British got involved. The Shah was already planning to try by constitutional means (which he had legal power to do) to remove Mossadegh. Would he have done it without British and US backing, is a debate for historians.
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The American "regime" has a country that people are literally fighting in line to get into.
Not any more. https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/08/icymi-negative-n...