Comments by "Catherine Birch" (@catherinebirch8263) on "How the US and Iran became enemies" video.

  1. If you didn't know it's because you haven't been paying attention.
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  2. Oil IS their business. For many decades now the foundation of US wealth has been what they take from other countries - yes, they pay, but use their military and CIA to break other countries in order to manipulate the price. The video glossed over a few things. First of all, the government the US replaced with the Shah (King) was both secular and democratically elected. It was also backing Iranian women in their strides forward. The reason the US crushed this secular democracy was that it was nationalizing the oil companies which would have resulted in less favorable treatment and higher prices. Not because the government was unstable.
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  3. That's pretty much nonsense. Before the US crushed it and reinstalled a brutal dictator in its place, the government was secular and democratic. IRAN ideology is not opposed to US ideology.
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  4. Actually not a new perspective. However it appears to be some history that hasn't been included in US school lessons and somehow(!) gets overlooked by US politicians and newspapers.
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  5. CNN also forgot to add that the democratically elected secular government the US overthrew to reinstall the dictator did far more to advance women. For example they made veils optional in university. The dictator made them illegal. Result: Far more women attended university before the dictator was reinstalled. Bottom line: You really shouldn't cling to the disinformation you grew up with. You've been conned.
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