On this day in 1953, the U.S. and British governments initiated a coup d'état against the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh. Mosaddegh had been preparing to nationalize Iran's British-owned oil fields.
Mosaddegh had sought to audit the documents of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), later re-named British Petroleum, and to limit the company's control over Iranian oil reserves. When the AIOC refused to cooperate with the Iranian government, the parliament voted to nationalize Iran's oil industry and to expel foreign corporate representatives from the country.
In response, the British began a worldwide boycott of Iranian oil to pressure Iran economically and engaged in subterfuge to undermine Mosaddegh's government.
After considering military action, Britain opted for a coup d’état. President Harry Truman rejected the idea, but when Dwight Eisenhower took over the White House, he ordered the CIA to embark on one of its first covert operations against a foreign government.
The coup was led by an agent named Kermit Roosevelt, the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. The CIA leaned on a young, insecure Shah to issue a decree dismissing Mossadegh as prime minister. Kermit Roosevelt had help from Norman Schwarzkopf’s father: Norman Schwarzkopf.
The CIA and the British helped to undermine Mossadegh’s government through bribery, libel, and orchestrated riots. Agents posing as communists threatened religious leaders, while the US ambassador lied to the prime minister about alleged attacks on American nationals.
Some 300 people died in firefights in the streets of Tehran.
Mossadegh was overthrown, sentenced to three years in prison followed by house arrest for life.
The crushing of Iran’s first democratic government ushered in more than two decades of dictatorship under the Shah, who relied heavily on US aid and arms. The anti-American backlash that toppled the Shah in 1979 shook the whole region and helped spread Islamic militancy.
After the 1979 revolution President Jimmy Carter allowed the deposed Shah into the U.S. Fearing the Shah would be sent back to take over Iran as he had been in 1953, Iranian militants took over the U.S. embassy–where the 1953 coup was staged–and held hundreds hostage.
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So uh, this person accusing hexbear of having a "hit-list" and all their alts is scaring me. I think they just made an alt pretending to be me pretending to be their alt, and are, getting into arguments with themself? After I called them out for accidentally replying to me on their alt.
https://hexbear.net/comment/3766810
They also went through my profile and responded to a comment of mine from yesterday to say "sorry you need some psychopathic conspiracy theory to justify your existence. but people just hate you"
Edit:
They're replying to and arguing with themselves over and over with the same copy pasted messages over and over. Could this be a split personality? I'm actually kind of concerned for this user, if you go their account(s) they've been doing this and commenting the same things for hours
gangstalking is when you talk to yourself amongst your own alts
that's a block/ignore if ever I've seen one
Their new comments are actually making me feel really bad for them, is this some kind of cry for help?
dunno, don't care, let them reply to themselves and nauseum. Whether they're in crisis or not you're not going to help them, L+ratio+crybully
if this was someone you were proximate to I'd maybe think differently, but this is one guy on the internet
The funniest part is they were actually ratioing a few hexbears in that thread just because they were upvoting their comments with all their alts LMAO
I must admit, that is a sort of posting power
I don't have much experience with people with alters (I'm afraid I'm not familiar with the correct terminology) but my understanding is that alters generally don't come forward that rapidly. I'm not sure what's going on with them. They've been on a roll for a while now.
Yup, there was just a big thread where he accused hexbear users of stalking him and having a kill-list of people to murder including him
Oh, this guy is unhinged. He had a freak-out at me on Mastodon, too.
Here he is replying with an alt on his own post days before the defederation nonsense.
I can't believe dozens of hexbears have been arguing with this dude and all his alts for days over all different shit and it's just one person 💀 I feel bad for laughing and it feels like he's really spiraling lately but holy shit
let it die. Idk the context of that comment but mistreating those with BPD isn't some novel thing, also the author clearly isn't worth listening to either
Would we really bother hounding pieces of shit via targeting their fediverse presence? I understand, respect, and enjoy that there are people who contribute and get more out of hexbear than me, but I have a hard time believing that you're going to go out of your way to do target harassment against some dumb lib. They're a diamond dozen and it's a doggy dog world, it seems a futile effort