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3 days ago

We need to be honest about Iran and how our rampant greed for oil is causing mayhem | George Monbiot

Western military interventions in the Middle East stem from century-long resource control efforts, exemplified by the 1953 CIA-backed coup against Iran's democratic government to prevent oil nationalization.
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2 months ago

Iran's protesters need our support not another western-intervention disaster | Owen Jones

Because it severed the country's internet connection, facts are difficult to establish, but the respected Human Rights Activists in Iran has confirmed 544 have been killed and well over 10,000 arrested those numbers are probably significant underestimates. Here is a regime that consolidated its power in the 1980s by butchering leftists helped, it should be noted, by both MI6 and the CIA, who supplied them with lists of alleged Soviet agents.
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