LilMikeSF<p>How We Got Here, a brief meandering <a href="https://c.im/tags/HistoryLesson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryLesson</span></a> </p><p>Almost 75 Years Ago The <a href="https://c.im/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> Ran A Dirty <a href="https://c.im/tags/RegimeChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RegimeChange</span></a> Through <a href="https://c.im/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Iran</span></a> At Behest Of <a href="https://c.im/tags/BigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOil</span></a>.</p><p>To <a href="https://c.im/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> state dept. It seemed like it was going great , state sponsored torture via <a href="https://c.im/tags/SAVAK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SAVAK</span></a> took care of dissidents run under the "royal decree" of the reinstated <a href="https://c.im/tags/Persian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Persian</span></a> monarch was established in 1957, with assistance of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/CIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CIA</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mossad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mossad</span></a>. Apparently by 1970s, everybody loved their colognes and discos, skirts on the female pop stars and university students... eventually they even got IKEA as the oil was flowing.</p><p>Apparently nowadays no one abroad fondly recollects what happened next .. and what went down in past 45 years... </p><p>When US diplomatic hostages were taken and the <a href="https://c.im/tags/IKEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IKEA</span></a> closed, it's managers paying baksheesh to escape, even the US backed <a href="https://c.im/tags/Shah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shah</span></a>, and anyone with dough was fleeing across borders....The Shah retired to a home near some Saudi Sheik's and <a href="https://c.im/tags/RodStewart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RodStewart</span></a>'s in <a href="https://c.im/tags/BeverlyHills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeverlyHills</span></a> as a back home revolution imposed an exiled <a href="https://c.im/tags/SupremeReligiousLeader" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeReligiousLeader</span></a>...and somehow for decades, under an <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ayatollah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ayatollah</span></a> in the 21st century, even with massive US imposed <a href="https://c.im/tags/sanctions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sanctions</span></a>, or perhaps because of it, the <a href="https://c.im/tags/RevolutionaryGuard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RevolutionaryGuard</span></a> leadership benefit by routing billions of dollars into their coffers by controlling thru force, the country's graft, aid, and economic exports. The dissidents still disappear even if perhaps public protest is occasionally allowed in the Islamic Republic of Iran.</p><p>They are the last of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/MiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEast</span></a> stalwarts refusing to bend to western <a href="https://c.im/tags/BloodForOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BloodForOil</span></a> imposed Imperialism, while neighbors and rivals with formerly strong leaders like Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya have been burnt to crisp shells of former selves. </p><p>Now the billionaire bad boy US President is threatening to nuke them...or not.</p><p><a href="https://wapo.st/3HQnbvp" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wapo.st/3HQnbvp</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WaPo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaPo</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/GiftLink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GiftLink</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/9RH2wXQtFdo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/9RH2wXQtFdo</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>