@alanferrier

Wow. As someone who grew up on the Middle Loch of Pearl Harbor, whose families' homes were strafed by Japanese planes, whose Dad was chased by a Zero while driving his car by Wheeler, whose uncle was a first responder diving into the burning oil filled waters as part of the mobilized Hawai'ian Territorial Guard, nothing energizes a people like an attack on home soil by an enemy nation.

This will not end here.

@pattykimura
Don't forget Iran used to be a democracy.

Until they wanted to nationalise oil. As US and British oil companies were taking the oil with little local benifit.

The US and British organised a coup and installed a new leader, which lead them down the path of anti west religious leaders and treatment of woman, they have today.

Consequences can be felt many many decades later

@alanferrier

@SuperMoosie Iran was never a democracy. People need to learn what that word means. There is no country in the world today that is a democracy,

Iran was secular, but never a democracy. It was a legal crime to dissent, media were were imprisoned with jail sentences for criticizing government. The extremist fanatics exploited the people discontent and no Iran executes citizens engaged in homosexuality and women get their skulls crushed if they show hair in public

@RavShaul
Was not always such. Could wear miniskirts in 1970s.

Again, 1950s UK/USA orgianised coup for cheap oil. set the course to the later 1979 Revolution and mistrust of the west.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution