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The 1953 'Operation Ajax' narrative is historically misunderstood; the Shah already possessed the constitutional authority to dismiss the Prime Minister.
“Whenever you open X or Tik Tok, you're guaranteed to be subjected to the most backward, historically illiterate takes imaginable.”
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Pre-1979 Iran was a rapidly modernizing, secular Western ally where life in Tehran mirrored 1970s Los Angeles.
“We didn't overthrow a regime. The Sha was in charge the whole time... We helped the Sha do the thing that he had the constitutional ability to do.”
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The 1979 revolution was a 'bizarre coalition' of Marxists and radical Islamists united solely by their hatred of the Shah's autocracy.
“If you look at pictures of Tehran in the 1970s, it looks a lot like LA in the 1970s. People are wearing Western clothing... living relatively normal lives.”
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The Iranian Hostage Crisis highlights the 'Iron Law' of foreign policy: weakness invites aggression, while strength compels compliance.
“Literally the very moment that Ronald Reagan was sworn into office as president, they released the hostages. Weird how that works.”
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Iran’s 'Kuds Force' is directly responsible for at least 600 American deaths in Iraq through the engineering of high-end IEDs.
“Hundreds of American troops, at least 600 actually, were murdered having their limbs blown off because of Iranian weapons.”