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[Nate @nateparent16]

"QUAVO"
- Quavo 2017

[Scott Ingram ✝️ 🇺🇸 @ScottIngram334]

How many people know what happened in Iran in 1953?

The last time the United States directly orchestrated a regime change in Iran was the 1953 coup d'état, known as Operation Ajax (or TP-AJAX).

In 1951, Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh nationalized the British-controlled Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now BP). This move aimed to give Iran more control over its oil wealth but sparked a crisis: Britain imposed an economic blockade, and the U.S. (under President Dwight D. Eisenhower) feared Mosaddegh's government could drift toward Soviet influence during the Cold War.

The CIA and Britain's MI6 jointly planned and funded the operation. They bribed politicians, military officers, and clerics; spread disinformation (including fake communist propaganda); and paid protesters to create chaos. On August 19, 1953, pro-Shah forces (backed by the military) overthrew Mosaddegh after days of street fighting that killed around 300 people. Mosaddegh was arrested, tried for treason, and sentenced to three years in prison followed by lifelong house arrest.

The coup restored full power to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who had briefly fled the country. A new oil consortium (including U.S. companies) took control, splitting revenues more favorably for the West while Iran retained nominal sovereignty.

The Shah ruled as a pro-Western monarch for the next 26 years. With massive U.S. military and economic aid, Iran modernized rapidly: oil wealth funded infrastructure, women's rights expanded (as seen in the 1970s video from the X post you shared), and the country became a key U.S. ally in the Middle East. However, his regime grew increasingly authoritarian. The secret police (SAVAK) suppressed dissent, corruption and inequality rose, and many Iranians viewed the Shah as an American puppet.

The coup created deep resentment that exploded in the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Iranians overthrew the Shah and established the Islamic Republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini—a fiercely anti-Western theocracy. The revolution led directly to the U.S. embassy hostage crisis (1979–1981), severed diplomatic ties, and turned Iran into America's primary adversary in the region. U.S. officials later called the 1953 intervention a major policy failure and a setback for democracy in Iran.

In short, the 1979 Islamic Republic that the U.S. has opposed ever since was, in large part, a direct backlash to the 1953 regime change. Historians widely describe 1953 as a textbook case of "blowback": short-term "success" that created a far more hostile long-term enemy.

This history is why discussions of "regime change" in Iran today often reference 1953 as a cautionary tale.

[Nate @nateparent16]

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[Detroit Lions @Lions]

WAYMO DEEP MAN

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[Shot of Michigan Sports @shotofms]

Happy Brian Branch pick six day to those who celebrate

[Nate @nateparent16]

@jimbobrays_ Eco terrorism number 1

[Tom Brady @TomBrady]

Bet

[Dov Kleiman @NFL_DovKleiman]

#Lions coach Dan Campbell said he wants Real live Lion on the sidelines for the team, per @PardonMyTake

Campbell said team owner Sheila Ford had no problem with the idea but the league didn't allow it.

"I’m not gonna point out Roger on this, I’m just gonna say the league frowns on that, let’s just say that"

What could've gone wrong?

[Nate @nateparent16]

@jimbobrays_ Home owner bought us pizza, bad day to play hookie buddy

[Pardon My Take @PardonMyTake]

The Packers seeing a first responder on the field https://t.co/DOCPBNWrLV

[AMONG US ST BROWN @That1LionsFan]

NO ICE CREAM TODAY JOHNNY

[Nate @nateparent16]

@jimbobrays_ Back in the trenches with Kevin

[Rob Gucci @heatdaddy69420]

Chris chelios has to be Puerto Rican

[t.o.n.y 🗽 @tonysHIPHOP]

We're sending Chief Keef to handle the situation, have no worries folks

[Nate @nateparent16]

Holy fuck this just made me team Putin.

[AnnaLynne McCord @IAMannalynnemcc]

Dear Mister President Vladimir Putin…

[Q @Qban_Linx]

I know there's a general sense of despair right now, and a need to do *something* to help. But that impulse can lead down some bad avenues with issues as sensitive as the Russia-Ukraine conflict, including inadvertent support of orgs funneling money to nationalist militias (1/8)

[Chad Johnson @ochocinco]

Wish i knew how to read 📚

[Q @Qban_Linx]

Fine.

Once a year there should be a reverse onus on politicians to prove why they shouldn't be executed publicly
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