Let’s review the U.S’s relations with the successor to the ancient Persia, relations which have been purely self-serving on the U.S.’s part since the 1950s. Early in that decade, Iran had a democratically elected leader of real stature, Mohammed Mossadegh, but the U.S. didn’t like him because he wanted to nationalize the oil companies. In 1953 we had Mossadegh overthrown and propped up the Shah with the help of the murdering, torturing thugs in his secret police.
