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		reliabilityguy 50 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The United States and Israel have launched a major... You've missed the part where islamist butchered the leaders of the actual 1979 revolution. In reality it was: unpopular shah -> 1979 revolution -> islamists take control, prison and kill the leftists of 1979 revolution.

ifwinterco 49 days ago [–]

That is true but that’s often how these things go, you pull together a coalition of factions to overthrow the existing elites and then afterwards it devolves into infighting

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