Originally Posted by
4Dragons
Either way if you are pro Iran in any way, shape or form you are then also anti women's rights and are 100% behind the killing of homosexuals and Jews.
Wtf are you on about. This is precisely the sort of blind ignorance that needs to be publically shamed. BCR is absolutely making the correct assertions regarding the history of western intervention and youth of Iran, which constitutes over 70% of the population. In fact, the Iranian youth, I would argue, are the most educated progressives in all of Asia. "4dragons", if you don't understand the complexities of misguided American interventionism in Iran, then let me try to break it the fuck down for you.
Mosaddegh was a democratically elected prime minister of Iran from 51-53. He was a lawyer and parliamentarian; he was a noble man who wanted to fucking nationalize the country's greatest resource. Oops, big mistake when you've got the British (British petroleum) controlling the Iranian oil industry since 1913. In short, mosaddegh got thrown out of power via a coup orchestrated by non other than the CIA and MI6. The replacement figurehead was the Shah and he was a pretty bad leader to be honest. My parents love the Shah, but that's because they were from wealthy families and left Iran for the US in the mid-seventies. The regular middle and lower classes were heavily marginalized and brutalized by the SAVAK (the Shah's police force). Furthermore, freedom of speech didn't exist and ordinary people feared the SAVAK (they tortured any dissenters without remorse).
Ultimately, people were fed up and made the tragic blunder (in hindsight) of overthrowing the Shah and replacing him with the Ayotallahs. But ask yourself, did the people have any other choice? At the time, any alternative was seen as an improvement on the Shah. That's essentially how bad he was.... However, he now looks like fucking George Washington when compared to these religious power mongers. My family, like almost all Persians, fucking despise the Ayotallahs (as evidenced by the green movement protests @ the last election), but these guys are seemingly the most cunning group of theocrats of all time. I'm not even exaggerating when I say that, just do your due diligence on these crooks.
Anyways, I could pontificate further on the topic, but I'm on my phone in an uber...