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To: FJB who wrote (754745)	11/26/2013 12:47:28 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1578299

" American Held Hostage In Iran For 444 Days Calls Deal 'Foolishness'..." Fubbie, you consider THIS GUY an unbiased source? You are aware that we deposed the democratically elected government in Iran and put our puppet Shah up as leader? That THAT'S what the entire "Iranian revolution" was about? en.wikipedia.org "In 1941 Reza Shah was deposed and his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was installed by an invasion of allied British and Soviet troops. In 1953, foreign powers (American and British) again came to the Shah's aid—after the Shah fled the country, the British MI6 aided an American CIA operative in organizing a military coup d'état to oust the nationalist and democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh. [52]" The Shah's regime became increasingly oppressive, brutal, [35] [36] corrupt, and extravagant. [35] [37] It also suffered from basic functional failures that brought economic bottlenecks, shortages, and inflation. [38] The Shah was perceived by many as beholden to – if not a puppet of – a non- Muslim Western power (the United States) [39] [40] whose culture was affecting that of Iran. At the same time, support for the Shah may have waned among Western politicians and media – especially under the administration of U.S. President Jimmy Carter – as a result of the Shah's support for OPEC petroleum price increases earlier in the decade. [41]