New Clown. Same Circus. More Coffins.
The Trumpstein Chronicles, Simplified
A History of US Interference in Iran
There’s a question Americans love to ask about Iran: Why do they hate us?
The answer isn’t complicated. We just don’t teach it in schools.
Oil and the Original Sin
In 1953, Iran had a democratically elected prime minister named Mohammad Mossadegh. He committed the unforgivable crime of nationalizing Iran’s oil industry — oil that the British had been extracting at colonial rates through the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (later BP, because rebranding fixes everything). Britain wanted him gone but couldn’t do it alone. This was the heyday of American empire, and Washington picked up on the first ring.
The CIA, under the direction of Kermit Roosevelt Jr. — Teddy’s grandson, because empire is a family business — orchestrated Operation Ajax. They paid off Iranian military officers, planted propaganda in newspapers, hired …
