I agree with most of this, but one point of order:
"Not Venezuela, where a smash-and-grab raid against a military weakling was easily achieved."
Venezuela's own government conspired with Trump to literally hand over its own president. It is not and never was a revolutionary government. It was and is a bourgeois nationalist regime, like most countries in the world, that merely sought a better deal for its oil from Imperialism. Yet, even that is intolerable to Imperialism. Yes, it calls itself socialist. But so does AOC and Mandani. It's not what they say they are, it's what they do. Venezuela's dirty deal with Trump at Maduro's expense (not a shot fired!) is the surest proof there is nothing socialist or revolutionary about its current government.
Reza Pahlvavi, the Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's son wants to return from exile in America, and the Iranian people want him to return to rein over them, and have at least since 2018 when I wrote my book entitled The Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi: Victim of His Times ISBN 978-09725798-3-4 in 2018, because while British people know that the CIA deposed the Shah of Iran in 1979, they don't know why. But I do as the American I am who was born in Los Angeles, the area of the world where more Iranians live outside Iran than any other area in the entire world, and the gentleman who taught me knew the Shah of Iran and Empress Farah personally as his parents and the Shah and Empress Farah visited back and forth through the years.
I still have a few copies of my book that I am offering to British people for £20.00 with free P&P. Contact me if you're interested in this very detailed book with index of 20 pages and a total of 391 pages using a@truedemocracy.net You can read comments by a few who have read my top secret book at https://arlenejohnson.livejournal.com but don't use the ordering information thereafter. I will tell you what my sort code and account number is on my TSB account. But be quick, because I will be moving soon, and won't probably be able to check my online banking for a while.
Iran has not started a war since 1798; The Shah's son deserves to return to Iran as does his widow mother Empress Farah. Trump, who this American didn't vote for, is deceiving you.
You cannot even spell reign correctly. A little thing you say. No it is a reflection of your blatant ignorance Sharlene. You seem to imagine 92 million people, the vast majority of whom were born after the Pahlavis fled Iran fearing for their lives at the hands of the thousands they had tortured, want someone most of them have never even heard of to rule over them. That is despite the tales from the older generation of Iranians of how their Uncle died at the hands of Savak for the crime of listening to a pre-recorded tape; for that was how Ayotollah Komeni stayed in touch with ordinary Iranians when he was exiled to France.
In fact I can only assume you are too young to remember the horror times in the 1970's when thousands of innocents were rounded up and tortured from Tehran to the smallest villages in the most obscure Shahrestan in Khorasan. The Savak seemed to be everywhere, seemingly ignorant of the old saw 'Repression breeds insurrection', they tortured, raped and slaughtered across Iran. I remember how obviously afraid everyone was in those days, do you? Have you ever even been to Iran? It certainly doesn't seem like it otherwise you would know that no one among the paid rioters has seriously demanded the return of the Pahlavis.
The types you claim to know are the types who benefited most from the culture of secret police impunity for rape, torture and murder. If you are truly interested in what happened back then, go to Iran before it is too late while many of the victims of the Pahlavis are still extant. Talk to them and learn their side of the story because you will learn nothing from Iran's bitter and twisted former elites. I know that my experiences of 1970's Iran are totally different from that of the fleeing pampered types who turned up in my country post revolution.
I agree with most of this, but one point of order:
"Not Venezuela, where a smash-and-grab raid against a military weakling was easily achieved."
Venezuela's own government conspired with Trump to literally hand over its own president. It is not and never was a revolutionary government. It was and is a bourgeois nationalist regime, like most countries in the world, that merely sought a better deal for its oil from Imperialism. Yet, even that is intolerable to Imperialism. Yes, it calls itself socialist. But so does AOC and Mandani. It's not what they say they are, it's what they do. Venezuela's dirty deal with Trump at Maduro's expense (not a shot fired!) is the surest proof there is nothing socialist or revolutionary about its current government.
Lol..... You are so misinformed about the realities on the ground in the communes and on the streets that it's sickening
So? It worked.
You can be sure that there are plenty of Iranians who also would be happy to work with the Americans in exchange for yankee dollars.
Reza Pahlvavi, the Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's son wants to return from exile in America, and the Iranian people want him to return to rein over them, and have at least since 2018 when I wrote my book entitled The Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi: Victim of His Times ISBN 978-09725798-3-4 in 2018, because while British people know that the CIA deposed the Shah of Iran in 1979, they don't know why. But I do as the American I am who was born in Los Angeles, the area of the world where more Iranians live outside Iran than any other area in the entire world, and the gentleman who taught me knew the Shah of Iran and Empress Farah personally as his parents and the Shah and Empress Farah visited back and forth through the years.
I still have a few copies of my book that I am offering to British people for £20.00 with free P&P. Contact me if you're interested in this very detailed book with index of 20 pages and a total of 391 pages using a@truedemocracy.net You can read comments by a few who have read my top secret book at https://arlenejohnson.livejournal.com but don't use the ordering information thereafter. I will tell you what my sort code and account number is on my TSB account. But be quick, because I will be moving soon, and won't probably be able to check my online banking for a while.
Iran has not started a war since 1798; The Shah's son deserves to return to Iran as does his widow mother Empress Farah. Trump, who this American didn't vote for, is deceiving you.
You cannot even spell reign correctly. A little thing you say. No it is a reflection of your blatant ignorance Sharlene. You seem to imagine 92 million people, the vast majority of whom were born after the Pahlavis fled Iran fearing for their lives at the hands of the thousands they had tortured, want someone most of them have never even heard of to rule over them. That is despite the tales from the older generation of Iranians of how their Uncle died at the hands of Savak for the crime of listening to a pre-recorded tape; for that was how Ayotollah Komeni stayed in touch with ordinary Iranians when he was exiled to France.
In fact I can only assume you are too young to remember the horror times in the 1970's when thousands of innocents were rounded up and tortured from Tehran to the smallest villages in the most obscure Shahrestan in Khorasan. The Savak seemed to be everywhere, seemingly ignorant of the old saw 'Repression breeds insurrection', they tortured, raped and slaughtered across Iran. I remember how obviously afraid everyone was in those days, do you? Have you ever even been to Iran? It certainly doesn't seem like it otherwise you would know that no one among the paid rioters has seriously demanded the return of the Pahlavis.
The types you claim to know are the types who benefited most from the culture of secret police impunity for rape, torture and murder. If you are truly interested in what happened back then, go to Iran before it is too late while many of the victims of the Pahlavis are still extant. Talk to them and learn their side of the story because you will learn nothing from Iran's bitter and twisted former elites. I know that my experiences of 1970's Iran are totally different from that of the fleeing pampered types who turned up in my country post revolution.