It put the Shah back in power (by toppling the previous democratic government), who, somewhat emulating royal families elsewhere (let’s be honest, *pretty much everywhere) proceeded to suppress the opposition and generally run the country vaguely like a kleptocracy…
Hence, the revolution, around 20 years later, in which Khomeini promised to overthrow the Shah, and install what is now the regime…
Then Khomeini betrays his (less fundamentalist) allies, sets up the Revolutionary Guard, and turns Iran into a theocracy…
Literally the way this almost always goes.
See also: China, Cambodia (probably the most fucked up example), Russia in 1917, and fucking Weimar…
But you can go back to the French Revolution and the Terrors, or indeed some of what Cromwell did after the English Civil War, for much earlier examples…
It’s worth noting that the British played as big of a role in all that as the US. Because oil/geopolitics…
Not the first time, and not the last time, of course. British adventurism in the 20th Century had just as significant consequences as its US equivalent (as did the French, and less so the Portuguese and Dutch). It’s just that they were already well on the decline by the time we are talking about. Unlike the US…
"They will learn of our peaceful ways by force."
Isn't that what put the Ayahtollahs in power in the first place?
The only business we have in Iran is to apologize to it's people for our part in their tyrannical government.
Unironically, sort of yes… Albeit indirectly.
It put the Shah back in power (by toppling the previous democratic government), who, somewhat emulating royal families elsewhere (let’s be honest, *pretty much everywhere) proceeded to suppress the opposition and generally run the country vaguely like a kleptocracy…
Hence, the revolution, around 20 years later, in which Khomeini promised to overthrow the Shah, and install what is now the regime…
Then Khomeini betrays his (less fundamentalist) allies, sets up the Revolutionary Guard, and turns Iran into a theocracy…
Literally the way this almost always goes.
See also: China, Cambodia (probably the most fucked up example), Russia in 1917, and fucking Weimar…
But you can go back to the French Revolution and the Terrors, or indeed some of what Cromwell did after the English Civil War, for much earlier examples…
It’s worth noting that the British played as big of a role in all that as the US. Because oil/geopolitics…
Not the first time, and not the last time, of course. British adventurism in the 20th Century had just as significant consequences as its US equivalent (as did the French, and less so the Portuguese and Dutch). It’s just that they were already well on the decline by the time we are talking about. Unlike the US…