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"You do realize that the US has been intervening in Iran and Afghanistan for decades, right?"

Of course. That was more or less the point.

The U.S.-backed Shah of Iran (who was, let's make no mistake, an authoritarian dictator) was ejected and women's rights immediately took a profound backward step.

Do you deny it?



When US installed the Shah as a dictator of Iran, the social policies of Iran took a profound backwards step.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddegh




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