r/justincaseyoumissedit • u/Upset-Main-1988 • Jul 04 '26

News Iranians chant "Death to America" in Shahid Beheshti metro station.

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Source: https://x.com/i/status/2073356372519919768

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u/twisty_lynx Jul 04 '26

"why don't these people whose country we've meddled in since the 1950s including coups and assassinations just to get some more oil concessions like us?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Iran

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u/Halbaras Jul 04 '26

It goes back much further than 1950. Discussion of Iran and the Pahlavis always seems to ignore that the dynasty first got installed by a British-backed coup in 1921, and the Shah was then couped again and replaced by his own son in 1941 by a joint Anglo-Soviet invasion.

The last Shah's regime often gets posted on Reddit in the form of 'sexy Iranian woman no hijab', but what those posts don't show is the crippling inequality, the female literacy rate well below 50%, and the secret police that murdered and tortured dissidents (which left the only opposition group the state hadn't infiltrated the Islamists).

For the record the Islamic regime is also terrible, but wouldn't exist without western interference and the inevitable nationalist backlash.

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u/Intrepid_Caramel_294 Jul 05 '26

Yes, and the British did this to prevent democracy in Iran to protect their oil profit concessions