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The administration claimed that blocking arms transfers would embolden Hamas — ignoring Israel’s genocidal slaughter.
The administration claimed that blocking arms transfers would embolden Hamas — ignoring Israel’s genocidal slaughter.
Iran qnd Israel shared “warm ties” while the Shah was in power as a western puppet. His internal police was trained and worked together with Mossad and CIA to torture murder and dissappear tens of thousands of people.
The moment things changed is pretty straight forward. When the revolution kicked out the Western puppet. Unfortunately the revolutionary moment was seized by the theocrats who now also run an opressive regime.
You deliberately left out the paragraph right before that explaining all of this.
I didn’t deliberately leave it out. I just didn’t see a point in including it. I was sharing this info in response to this comment of yours:
To point out that Iran was a threat to Israel long after the coup to remove Mohammad Mossadegh that you seemed to be referring to:
The August 1953 coup stemmed from U.S. fears over the Soviet Union increasingly wanting a piece of Iran as Communists agitated within the country.