the west,
we always frame relations with Iran from a late seventies embassy takeover perspective.
It's misleading.
Tensions with Iran started in 1953 with the CIA and
British intelligence services overthrow of Iran's democratically elected government and instillation of the shah all done in cold war, gotta halt soviet expansion never mind the fact that we're taking the profits of the national oil company etc.
That was the genesis of the Embassy takeover and it never gets brought up by mainstream news organizations.
"Was the killing of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force, an act of war? If it was, it was a war in which the United States and Iran were already joined.
That war goes back to Lebanon in the early 1980s, where General Suleimani’s predecessors created what became Hezbollah. Iran, with Syria, helped stage the 1983 bombings of the American Embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 Americans involved in a peacekeeping mission."
"It was the first covert action of the United States to overthrow a foreign government during peacetime."
It got us to where we are today.
Not the embassy takeover,
not Lebanon in the early 80's.
We overthrew their government and we were taking their resources.
Put in a brutal dictator.
Now we wonder why they hate us so.
Oh?
And Reagan?
Running for reelection in 84?
On the anniversary of the 241 marines being killed in Lebanon the year before?
Wouldn't answer reporters questions about their deaths.
Was whisked away by his aids..
Never mentioned them the whole day.
Trust me.
I remember.
I've been watching things a long time.
Pissed my dad off.
Big time.
I remember watching it with him.
Fuck your altar of Reagan.
Not where I worship.
Thing is?
Just like the last post?
All of this was inevitable.
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