cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/45077170
Actually it was called the Iran-Contra Affair.
this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2026
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Don’t forget, Iran was a democratic nation in the early 1950s until America fucked it up for corporate profits. We created the conditions that brought about the Iran regime to capitulate to corporate interests.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
at the behest of the UK too.
Highly recommend reading this book for more details on American interference in sovereign nations to protect corporate interests: https://ia600507.us.archive.org/0/items/ConfessionsOfAnEconomicHitman_257/JohnPerkins-ConfessionsOfAnEconomicHitman.pdf
whoa, direct to .pdf link, very nice, thank you. seconded your recommendation
And now even the US is up to being couped, in a "constitutional" manner. (Fidesz'es rise to power is often being called a "constitutional coup" by some scholars.)