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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
You can oppose yet another reckless and senseless US military incursion without laundering the Iranian regime into some misunderstood victim. Two things can be true.
The Iranian regime has agency. It funds, arms, and directs violent proxies because that serves its interests, not because history somehow forced its hand. And sure, western meddling is part of the story. The 1953 coup was significant in shaping the Iran that followed, and pretending otherwise is historical horse-blinders. But jumping from that to 'therefore every terror proxy is basically the fault of the west' is self-flagellating fan fiction.
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Even the 1953 coup is seen with deep anti-west revisionism today. Mosaddegh ended the 1952 election prior to votes coming in that would have lead to his government collapse, and declared dictatorial emergency powers to himself the same way Hitler did with the Enabling Act. The Ayatollah was deeply opposed to Mosaddegh by the time of the coup, and the coup was only possible because of mass dissent already existing within the Iranian population.
The coup or some sort of revolution would have occured at some point without CIA meddling. Whether that would have presented itself as an Islamic revolution is speculative but it certainly was plausible.
Note Ayatollah Kashani was pro-Nazi (read antisemite) and revealed in recent declassified documents to have been heavily involved with the coup with the CIA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abol-Ghasem_Kashani
https://www.fairobserver.com/region/...s-today-97231/
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Just a few weeks after the coup, in an interview with the Egyptian newspaper Akhbar al-Youm (editor’s note: the original article in Arabic is unavailable — this is a Farsi translation), Kashani said the biggest mistake of Mossadegh’s government was violating the constitution and disobeying the orders of the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. He added: “Mossadegh’s great mistake was making efforts to establishing republicanism. He forced shah to leave the country, but shah returned a few days later with dignity and popularity. People love shah.”
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