CIA

No-Tangerine5291

Greenland was a rage bait and Cuba will fall on its own on top of the CIA being there. When i was there in 2019 people love Trump. Idk about now but Cuba wont need ground troops. Iran is risky. Iran is more justifiable then Iraq however, i think we are late on over throwing Iran.

Andrew_Higginbottom

You trust the CIA? ;) ..or lefty Wiki :) "I mean isnt it logical that a muslim country is majorly muslim, like majority of middle east countries?" It's natural to assume, but we can't claim it logical. I too had assumed muslim majority in Iran, but it was an Iranian woman telling me it not so, that had me digging a little deeper.

Proof-Necessary-5201

>It all started with the Shar of Iran. Ah the hypocrisy and the lies, lol. No, it doesn't start with the Shah. You overlooked a crucial detail because it goes against your agenda, propaganda boy. In 1953, the CIA and British intelligence overthrew a democratically elected leader, Mohammad Mosaddegh after he nationalized the Iranian oil industry, which was previously controlled by the British. After that, they put the Shah in power, thus *causing the Islamic revolution*. It's your f#cking meddling in other people's affairs that causes instability and breeds terrorism and extremism. I will stop here because I have a strong desire to start insulting you, which I don't want to do. You lied by omission and have a strong bias from drinking lots and lots of propaganda. As for Allah's work. Not only Allah's work isn't to particularly target the US, but defend yourself against all kinds of oppressors, the actual religious nut jobs is the US admin that told soldiers that Jesus anointed Trump and that their war in Iran is for Armageddon to bring back Jesus: https://theintercept.com/2026/03/05/iran-war-end-times-christian/ Seriously, get help and revise your worldview. You're a zombie.

boofles1

I'm not sure that the CIA backed Kurds exist in a real sense, they would have no interest or ability to attack Tehran and replace the government and the Iranian people wouldn't support them. It just seems like the Trump administration have thrown it out there so they seem to have a plan.

csmedo1994

We, the US military with access to billions in spy satellites, thousands of military intelligence analysts at the pentagon and worldwide, plus CIA, NSA, many more agencies. Mossad, plus thousands of war planners across 4 war fighting military branches whose lives depend on that info—-DId Not Know? BUT, you raj6126, esteemed Reddit commentator of 3 yrs, YOU knew this? Bc you saw it where? YouTube? CNN? You should inform the numerous generals and their staff of this critical information. Hurry! Lives are depending on You, Raj6126! Do you hear yourself?

yellowjackethokie

The Trump administration is way out of their depth on this. By now it should be obvious that the Iranian regime is not going to collapse under an air campaign alone. I have very little faith in the CIA-backed Kurds to secure the victory on the ground. This isn't going to be over anytime soon.

CardinalCopiaIV

I will give you a few clues … expensive black stuff … rare items in the ground … Iraq was all about oil, the war on drugs was because the cartels were getting a to big a slice of the pie (the CIA used drug sales to fund their black ops) Afghanistan was for the opium and flooding it back home. America is a war machine and its economy thrives in it

Anchises1

Love how people think Israel is controlling the US when in fact the US is its own actor and wants the same things. Why does it have to be mossad? Isn't the CIA the same thing? Lmaooo

Garbage-Disposal-938

CIA: after all the money and time it took to get those compromising photos of the Ayatollah and they just went ahead and killed him

Significant_Row_5951

While the CIA and other international actors provided weapons and funds to the Mujahideen to fight the Soviet Union, there is no direct evidence that the CIA specifically funded or trained bin Laden directly. U.S. helped create the environment of jihad in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden was not a conscious "invention" of the U.S. government, but rather a leader whose anti-Western views developed partly in opposition to American foreign

KingRegardothe2nd

CIA regime change playbook, Page 1: Throw money and weapons at poorly trained enemy of regime. Don't worry about further consequences. There are no other pages apparently.

FuzzyDynamics

Perfect. Put him in charge of the CIA

iFiredIce

Makes sense why those movies suck ass then. CIA hasn't done anything right since crack

givemethestars000

Don't separate the two. CIA manufactures Tyler Perry movies

lysergalien

We talkin Tyler Perry movies or CIA?

Rare-ish_Birb

Yes! And the CIA fully supported small business enterprising Afganis entering the lucrative big pharma ecosystem. I mean, the cost of opium base came waaaaay down.

KingRegardothe2nd

Obviously they will lose any sort of 'destruction' competition but they are cornered religious lunatics that are not bothered about death so a wave of anti western retaliation will be set in motion. They can simply keep fucking up pressure points of the global economy whilst supporting terror cells throughout the world. Then once the regime has been weakened different factions will fight for power and create a new hell hole akin to Libya. Apparently the CIA only has one page in their playbook. Arm the opposition, create chaos and a failed state. That way they are too preoccupied fighting each other to attack external forces. Not so great for the citizens as lawlessness and blood feuds begin. The economy tanks and inflation rises and employment disappears.

Valkorion335786

My Wikipedia page will be: Early life Controversial thoughts on the Antichrist Schizophrenia diagnosis Reddit Contributor CIA assassination

Valkorion335786

I’m like 90% sure the Bay of Pigs invasion was just a bunch of plains clothes CIA agents walking around a marketplace and casually being like “hey let’s overthrow Castro” and the Cubans were like “?? Who are you”

ThatStrangeGuyOverMe

Israel and the CIA funded ISIS but the rest still stands.

AnonymousLoner1

Gee, wonder why... > The CIA now officially describes the 1953 coup it backed in Iran that overthrew its prime minister and cemented the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as undemocratic. https://apnews.com/article/iran-1953-coup-cia-218323db3cc1aca6bde1e54827527e8d https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_Imperial_State_of_Iran

SideBet2020

Been there, done that. On 19 August 1953, Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown in a coup d'état that strengthened the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran. It was instigated by the United Kingdom (MI6), under the name Operation Boot and the United States (CIA), under the name TP-AJAX Project or Operation Ajax. A key motive was to protect British oil interests in Iran after Mosaddegh nationalized the country's oil industry

TracyM45

CIA backed KURDS are already in country https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1rkw9kj/thousands_of_kurdish_fighters_launch_ground/

Torgud_

This probably isn't even hopium, it's most likely a psyop from the CIA to increase tensions and paranoia within the Iranian regime.

michaelmacmanus

You are either a bot, a shill, or just a very slow human. For the rest of anyone normal who might be reading this, here is a timeline of reality that the rest of the world follows, not just jingoist know-nothings: * 1953: The CIA and MI6 overthrew the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh because he insisted Iranian oil should belong to the Iranian people. This put in place a police state led by the Shah of Iran. * 1979: The Shah was overthrown in a mass revulsion against decades of an American-imposed police state, leading to the current government coming into power. * 1980-1988: Immediately after the 1979 revolution, the United States armed Iraq to kill hundreds of thousands of Iranians in the Iraq-Iran War, with Saddam Hussein serving as a U.S. ally during this period. * Since 1986: According to Sachs, it has been Benjamin Netanyahu's "dream" to overthrow the Iranian government, a timeline he previously estimated as beginning in 1996. * Ongoing (since 1986/1996): The United States has been using "every subterfuge, covert operation," assassinations, and economic warfare to crush the Iranian economy. * 2015: Iran concluded the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with the P5+1 countries, placing Iran strictly under UN supervision regarding its nuclear program. * 2015-2018: Iran stuck with the JCPOA agreement, even though the United States "cheated" by not fully ending sanctions as promised. * 2018: Donald Trump "ripped up" the JCPOA, now we know that its primarily due to Netanyahu's desire to overthrow the Iranian government rather than have peaceful relations. * After 2018: A campaign of assassinations and bombings of Iran's nuclear facilities began. * Last Year & This Year: The U.S. negotiated with Iran and then bombed the country in the middle of or after negotiations, using diplomacy as a "pretext" for premeditated war.

AnonymousLoner1

1. Did Iran steal any nukes from the US, like Israel did? No, Iran did not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_affair 2. Those protests were not organic.  CIA orchestrated them as usual, and the protestors were armed.  Because we already did all this decades ago, including the fake protests, and the regime change didn't last because it was never about "freedom" or "democracy". > Shaping the crowds on Tehran’s streets proved critical to the operation. The CIA organized demonstrators to pose as pro-shah protesters, including paying individuals to chant slogans and confront Mossadegh supporters. > These orchestrated demonstrations climaxed on Aug. 19, 1953, when pro-shah forces and sympathetic leaders in the Iranian military – with CIA financial and logistical backing – seized key points of the country, confronted Mossadegh loyalists and helped topple his government. Estimates suggest around 200 to 300 people were killed in the chaotic fighting in Tehran. https://theconversation.com/cia-agents-successfully-executed-a-plan-for-regime-change-in-iran-in-1953-but-trump-hasnt-revealed-any-signs-of-a-plan-277202 Because this was the result: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_Imperial_State_of_Iran 3. Do more global trade by doing less global trade because only you get to dictate who gets to trade with whom?  You do realize that we make less than 5% of the entire world population, right?  We're NOT the world.  It's the mentality like yours that's the reason why BRICS even exists in the first place.

SpellAccomplished541

If you can't trust anonymous 'leaks' to the press from CIA in the middle east then who can you trust? I'm confident it is not manufactured info for political or economic reasons...

SpellAccomplished541

What!!!! Are you suggesting that the story 'leaked' by the CIA about secret talks might not be 100% true?

SpellAccomplished541

Maybe the war is winding down in U.S. favor... ...Or maybe the story 'leaked' by the CIA about talks in place is the market manipulation?

precumfrosting

Talk about living on a hope and a prayer… “Operatives from Iran's Ministry of Intelligence signalled openness to the ​U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to talks on ‌ending the war, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing officials briefed on the matter.”

SpellAccomplished541

That's kind of what happened in the 80's (Iraq/Stark) - cheap asymetric threats like mines, exocets, etc. But now feels different because: 1) US is energy independent, 2) US started printing money already, 3) POTUS has already demonstrated that he will turn his policy 180 and declare 'victory' if bond market freaks out like liberation day. Since everyone knows he will TACO, retail is buying in at the slightest dip. It is still not clear what his goals are, so any minute he could declare victory and that this proves he is the greatest negotiator ever and he stopped another war (assuming he can convince Israel and Iran to stop). In fact... someone already started rumors down this chain by authorizing the CIA to leak fake news that Iran is asking to negotiate (Iran denies this 'news' leaked by CIA and vowed to continue 'defending').

ecoburner87

you mean the CIA 50s-10s, whose playbook never works and always causes more terrorism and refugee crises? that CIA never went anywhere

CriticalBlackberry90

CIA is arming the Kurds to topple the IRGC We going to the CIA of the 50's We are so fucking back baby

Business-Ad-5344

i have friends in the CIA. i heard CIA is already paying for his plastic surgery, and lined up a job for him at a Cinnabon in Omaha.

jrex035

>Operatives from Iran's Ministry of Intelligence signalled openness to the ​U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to talks on ‌ending the war, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, ***citing officials briefed on the matter.*** >The offer was made ​through an ***unnamed country's spy agency,*** the ​NYT said, ***citing Middle Eastern officials and officials ⁠from a Western nation who spoke on ​condition of anonymity.*** Emphasis mine. The report is saying that an unnamed country's spy agency was supposedly contacted by Iranian intelligence operatives who "signaled openness" about talking with the CIA about ending the war, according to anonymous officials from the ME and a "Western nation" which are almost certainly parties to the conflict. Literally the biggest nothingburger imaginable.

Bfisho

CIA get the 🌽 into Iran and fund that next dictator and run this shit up

Dazzling-Compote-394

Some Iranian operatives MAY have contacted the CIA for talks lmao? This scammy, kangaroo market will take any piece of news and use it as an excuse to slingshot back to the upside. Look how many green daily candles there are on the indices the past 2 weeks lmao. Big boys definitely have their marching orders to keep the market afloat.

banditcleaner2

its not a relief rally caused by nothing [Iran reached out to CIA for terms to end war with Israel | The Jerusalem Post](https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-888816)

dansdansy

Rumors that Iranian intel reached out to the CIA via a third party. Not sure it's true given there's also stories that Iran denied.

tollbearer

Because they will have no choice. They are almost entirely dependent upon us military equipment, and wouldn't last 10 seconds in a war against america. Everyone will change simultaneously, once america has them on lock, to create the maimum shock to china. This is the great game of geostrategy being played. You dont reveal your hand until youre in the best position to o so. Netenyahu is CIA and does not have Israels interests at heart. The stage after this is to embroil Israel in a nuclear war. They are creating a show to turn the american people, and the world, against Israel, forcing them to fire off their nukes, wiping out the infrastructure and populations the wrold island relies upon. You are buying into this narrative. You will see over the coming years, Israel scheduled for demoltion, as it is an american military base, and will soon be on death ground, and when troops are on death ground, you use them in the most kamikazee way you can think of, with no concern for their welfare. You are buying in to the first part of their plan, which is manufacturing consent for its destruction. The second part will be going to war with it. You will see. In the mean time, once they're done in iran, they will force all relevant countries to cut off all oil trade with china. You will see. The world is a great chess board, things are not happening on whims or by accident, all of this has been planned many years in advance.

Joosrar

People need to understand that the big fish don’t play the same game as you and I, they have literal CIA agents telling them what’s going on in the world, White House staffers, Pentagon officials, Military personnel, they verify activity in freakin pizza parlors in DC at night time. So yes, it’s always priced in.

metalfiiish

You spelled CIA wrong.

ThisBuddhistLovesYou

The pistachio one can vouch for anecdotally, as California farms pivoted from almonds to federally subsidized pistachios for “reasons” and one of these being surprise, Iran was one of the world’s largest pistachio producers and the US now out produces them. Of course in recent years, what do you do if you have an overproduction of some obscure nut? Why not cause a social media craze over it and call it a day? And that’s why US pistachio exports to China alone nears $1 billion now. Now I’m not saying it’s all a Dubai/CIA Conspiracy but hell, we’ve done weirder.

AFTCP

Democrats prefer starting CIA funded insurgencies. Smarter than these retards.

MagJack

CIA arming the Kurds to aid an uprising. I've seen this episode before.

McKoijion

Turns out Khamenei wasn't hiding in a bunker or anything. He was just chilling in his office. Dude was 86 and sick. Killing him was supposed to rally the people of Iran against the government, but it's starting to seem like he let himself die to rally the country against the US and Israel. His son was just made the new Ayatollah. At least that's how Iran's government is spinning it, but the New York Times did verify the details like he was just following his usual routine and died in his office rather than a bunker. > The New York Times followed with a breathless account published Sunday purporting to tell the secret story of how the CIA and Israel hunted down Khamenei, “tracking him for months” and “gaining more confidence about his locations and his patterns,” before pinpointing his location so he could be killed. “People briefed on the operation described it as a product of good intelligence and months of preparations,” the report claimed. > Khamenei’s secret location, it turned out, was simply his office. > The U.S. and Israel have consistently claimed Khamenei was in hiding. “This is basically just fabricated drama to make Trump look bigger and more dramatic than he really is,” a senior Iranian official told Drop Site. He spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about internal matters. > Iran’s Supreme National Security Council “personally recommended to [Khamenei] that he relocate, change his workplace, and even adjust his living arrangements for safety reasons,” the Iranian official said. “But [Khamenei] had a completely different perspective on moving—he insisted on keeping things as normal and ordinary as possible, without seeking extra security measures or standing out in any way.” https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-war-trump-israel-khamenei-assassination-retaliation-gulf-states https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/us/politics/cia-israel-ayatollah-compound.html https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-826211

Decent_Jello_8001

It makes sense once you realize it's just one big ole social op from the CIA.

AnonymousLoner1

Spoiler alert: It's already been done decades ago, and it didn't last for obvious reasons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_Imperial_State_of_Iran > The CIA now officially describes the 1953 coup it backed in Iran that overthrew its prime minister and cemented the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as undemocratic. https://apnews.com/article/iran-1953-coup-cia-218323db3cc1aca6bde1e54827527e8d Still think you're being open-minded?

holycarrots

I have a high opinion of the Iranian people, but this war isn't about turning Iran into a democracy, it's about destroying and destabilising it. The most likely outcome as per CIA predictions is a more hard line IRGC takeover, rather than a small rabble of unarmed protestors somehow taking power.

AnonymousLoner1

Who's "they"? A right-leaning population paid, trained, and armed by the CIA to overthrow whatever government we want them to?

BellacosePlayer

I'm very pleasantly surprised they didn't drop one. They might have just not made one since they knew they had Mossad and the CIA watching their asses and would have jumped on an actual reason to attack.

Muslimkanvict

It was more than just a bomb that took out the Ayatollah. It was spies within their government that informed the CIA and Mossad.

LasyKuuga

In a thread full of CIA, KGB and CCP assets I was the one liability

Iunatic

Shorting the CIA during war seems like a FANTASTIC idea.

gkdjsl

Pentagon and CIA putting out statements that there's no evidence that Iran was going to strike first, Hegseth already saying the goal isn't regime change. Utter debacle, buying the dip expecting a TACO move soon.

Pecncorn1

Agreed, this is way beyond the US. Ghislaine Maxwell's father got a state funeral and is buried on the Mount of Olives. Epstein was a Mossad asset and the CIA is probably in the mix as well. As I said in another comment, if all of this wasn't so meticulously documented I would think it was some batshit crazy Alex Jones script.

user365735

Oh okay then, 👍  *CIA has left the chat*

user365735

*the CIA has entered the chat* Buddy if you go missing it was nice chatting with ya

UsernameTaken_123

To be fair Bin Laden was trained by the CIA. Of course he knows how to hide

UsernameTaken_123

It was a concern voiced by General Dan Caine and many others but ignored by Hegseth and 🥭.  Same was the CIA warning that killing the Ayatollah was not recommended, as he would most likely get replaced by hardliners who don't have any fatwahs against nuclear weapond

Antiwhippy

Well the awkward thing is that those 50 years did start by a CIA coup to dispose a democratically elected leader. 

modder9

Oh yea Pahlavi isn’t doing shit ever again. I was saying they will find a new US friendly puppet. CIA/Mossad are built for this.

AdCritical5383

In an NSA analyst and can confirm this man is a CIA analyst.

borat_he_like_you

I'm a CIA Analyst. We hit Iran as a preemptive strike before Iran could strike our U.S. sex robot facilities & infrastructure.

CO-RockyMountainHigh

CIA arming Iran, while we bomb Iran. Gotta be playing both sides.

ecrane2018

Iran will most likely be the beginning of a wider regional conflict between Syria, Iran and Israel and the various powers that be. The US and CIA will do as it always does arming all sides which is great for the military industrial complex

No_Economist3815

Are the "CIA bots" in the room with us now?

Antiwhippy

The thing is donnie boy is taking all about Iranians rising up and the CIA don't have any that they've trained ready to be deployed? America used to be a country man.

ArtisticAside8224

I agree a week long air campaign isn't enough. It will take longer and it will take even more of the next level of leadership to be eliminated. And then It will take insiders to turn on the regime. I'm sure the CIA has some people in mind. But what are you doing with stocks ?

Soffatjockis

Iran was a democracy before the CIA and MI6 instigated a coup in 1953 to remove their [prime minister](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat)

Ok_Cry7572

Bike laden was a CIA agent

yourfavouriteguyhere

What’s the solution genius? There is a reason you are a couch potato nobody and in CIA.

Wulfgarlives

Friendly reminder that in 1953 the USA/CIA overthrew Iran's democratically elected government because they dared nationalize their oil and installed a dictator (the Shah) instead. That was the spark which later lead to the 1979 Islamic revolution and the current Mullah regime which the US is now bombing for no real reason other than that Bibi demanded they do. (same as with Iraq)

DesmondMilesDant

CIA homies lol.

Temporary-Alarm-744

They’re a CIA psyop 

BenisSpaghetti

Power vacuum. Unrest. Civil war. Sneakers on the ground from Iran civilians. More unrest. In the background the CIA helps the guy we want. Elections. Area stabilized.

No-Understanding2406

desert storm is such a bad comp for this it's almost funny. desert storm had a single clear objective (get iraq out of kuwait), a 6-month buildup with half a million troops, a massive coalition, and a defined exit strategy. this has... none of those things. iran is 4x the size of iraq, has 3x the population iraq had in 1991, mountainous terrain that makes afghanistan look flat, and just demonstrated it can hit US bases in bahrain. also the strait of hormuz is effectively closed, which didn't happen in desert storm because we weren't attacking the country that controls 20% of global oil transit. the "uncertainty is over" thesis only works if you believe killing khamenei ends this. the CIA's own assessment from this week says hardline IRGC elements will replace him. so the uncertainty isn't over, it just changed flavors. oil calls printing, spy puts for the dip monday, and then we find out if this is desert storm or iraq 2003 part two electric boogaloo.

jawndell

Don’t we learn: the easy part is killing Sadam, Qaddafi,  Ngo Dinh Diem (Vietnam war - CIA killed him and started a mess, look it up in Wikipedia).   Hard part is what happens after 

randomnameforme123

That viral CIA agent also said their intelligence service is garbage, its completely infiltrated and everything is leaked to Israel lmao

NiceOwner

FBI/CIA this person right here, beat his ass palanitir

Dry_Werewolf_1597

Reuters reported the CIA assessed Khamenei would be replaced by a hard liner in the IRGC. He was 86, pretty sure they had identified potential successors before hand. Don’t think this is a headless government

wead_guy_421

8 people is all Israel or the US has confirmed buddy. The rest of the casualties are civilians or the Ayatollah’s family members. The CIA released a report this week saying they have had a succession plan in place for years in the event this happens and that there are hundreds of people they could draw from to choose a new leader. Not sure where you get your intelligence but if you know more than the CIA you should give them a call they might need your brain power.

wead_guy_421

CIA has reported this week there are many people who would take over in the event Ali is killed. They’d need a full scale invasion to topple this regime. This does nothing but further risk the lives of the people in the region and may just result in a long drawn out international and civil war. This is the tip of the iceberg, they have millions willing to die for this.

32Bit_Brain

Im not that old but it seems to me that the US has forgotten how to make a regime change. It startet with Bush Jun and his endless ground wars and finished with Trumps illusion of world changing air strikes. All that long work CIA did in south amerika before the big bang, didn’t happen in Iran. This regime is waiting/preparing for an massive assault for the last 20 years. The Revolution Guard is no palace troop but a well equipped force with tight connections in every iranian neighborhood and to foreign guerilla troops. They made a 4 level succession plan so even if the first row is killed there are 3more rows that can succeed without inner dispute. Their military equipment is well sleeping in massive bunkers under iranian mountains with underearth rocket ramps protected from everything except bunker buster. Somy guess is that when you don’t see serious streetfights in the capital till sunday evening the once in a generation chance has passed.

ScipioAfricanusMAJ

Everyone listen to Army Tactic CIA trained TradeGIJoe for premium military tactics

jda823

If they knew where they were at the time of the strike, the are people on the ground. CIA operatives and informants

Not_Campo2

And according to the CIA, those most likely to be successor are the most hardline

Pereise1

> In the lead-up to the U. S. and Israeli attacks, the CIA assessed that if Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei were killed, hardline leaders from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) would likely take his place. A lot of yall permabulls are coping hard if you think a successful assassination gonna make it old news by Monday. Oil spike is a real concern when we already got a hot PPI two months in a row.

AnonymousLoner1

Here's the regime change you'll be looking forward to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_the_Imperial_State_of_Iran > The CIA now officially describes the 1953 coup it backed in Iran that overthrew its prime minister and cemented the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as undemocratic. https://apnews.com/article/iran-1953-coup-cia-218323db3cc1aca6bde1e54827527e8d The only ones this will help are Netanyahu, big oil, and our legal bomb makers, just like the "War on Terror".

SadZealot

Old royal family, same people the CIA backed in 1953

kitsunegoon

No one is defending the regime, but the regime came into power because of the CIA in the first place. Iranians may hate the government, but they hate the US way more, and when you start the day off by bombing two elementary schools, you're only legitimizing the dictatorship.

Pereise1

> They have known democracy and freedom and equality for women in the past. The Shah ruled Iran with an iron fist. Iran has not had any of those things since the 1953 CIA coup. Photos from a few elites in Tehran in the 1970's was not the reality for the majority of women or men during that era.

dasboot523

Dont know if thats an accurate take, we intalled the Shah Reza Pahlavi in a CIA backed coup and then years later blow back from that was the Islamic revolution that the United States most definetly did not support. So in a round about way sure.

throwaway2676

The second biggest supporter, the CIA, is also still doing fine

CoC_Axis_of_Evil

Using AI to trick protestors into charging bullets….. is somehow a legal basis to then invade. It’s like wow the illegal CIA coup failed, this is the basis for our legal argument. “Two wrongs make a right”

Pereise1

Lol CIA bots downvoting a blatant fact

funkee_one1

Imagine if the CIA fed Iran specific files he wanted released and he came up with the idea to bomb them just so they’d release it.

AnonymousLoner1

Here's your "freedom" right here: > The CIA now officially describes the 1953 coup it backed in Iran that overthrew its prime minister and cemented the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as undemocratic. https://apnews.com/article/iran-1953-coup-cia-218323db3cc1aca6bde1e54827527e8d

Dirty2020

So this is how war is done now? Step 1, eliminate all senior leadership in a single day. Step 2, install pre-arranged friendly leadership. Step 3, profit. This was the kind of regime change capability the CIA dreamed about for 50 years...guess we have the tech to actually do it now, avoiding all out conventional war. I honestly don't hate it compared to the alternative forever-wars.

AnonymousLoner1

Here's your prediction: we already did this decades ago.  And it didn't last because it wasn't "freedom" or "democracy" for the Iranian people. > The CIA now officially describes the 1953 coup it backed in Iran that overthrew its prime minister and cemented the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as undemocratic. https://apnews.com/article/iran-1953-coup-cia-218323db3cc1aca6bde1e54827527e8d