I’m not old enough to remember that in 1953 the CIA overthrew the wildly popular prime minister Mosaddegh because he wanted oil proceeds to benefit the people of Iran, not the oligarchs. He was replaced by the Shah, who bloodily suppressed the people and gave the oilmoney back to the oligarchs. And to Britain and the US.

I am however old enough to read history books.

Remember, the US embassy in Tehran was absolutely massive and it had a heck of a lot more than 52 personnel. The Americans got advance warning by Iranian officials that the student protestors were coming, so they could flee to the Canadian embassy and were able to leave the country.

There's indication that the people who stayed were CIA operatives who had orders to shred evidence of their many misdeeds. Unfortunately for them, Iranian school children spent some time putting the shreds back together again, exposing the various crimes of the USA. America denied what they had done for decades until Obama officially apologized.

Then he let Oliver North take the fall

I was so iconic they even made a video game about it called Contra

The USA also rigged the Italian vote to decide if our country would become a republic or a monarchy;
The problematic country was always the USA

"All conservative ideologies justify existing inequities as the natural order of things, inevitable outcomes of human nature. If the very rich are naturally so much more capable than the rest of us, why must they be provided with so many artificial privileges under the law, so many bailouts, subsidies and other special considerations - at our expense? Their "nat urally superior talents" include unprincipled and illegal subterfuge such as price-fixing, mass m%%der, stock manipulation, insider trading, fraud, tax evasion, the legal enforcement of unfair competition, ecological spoliation, harmful products and unsafe work conditions. One might expect naturally superior people not to act in such rapacious and venal ways. Differences in talent and capacity as might exist between individuals do not excuse the crimes and injustices that are endemic to the corporate business system."

-Parenti

And Nixon blew up the Vietnam peace talks to make the war last until after the elections so he could win, I'm starting to see a pattern in these republicans...

He's a republican hero.

Reagan should have gotten the chair for that one, but here we are with a fascist dictatorship in the USA and somehow nobody knows how that happened

“I’m old enough to remember Iran seizing the US embassy” but not old enough to remember any of the shit that led up to that, huh?

That Reagan song from killer Mike.

and then he got caught and feigned ignorance like a motherfucker.

I wonder if Trump is going to pull something similar with Iran this time.