Iran Demands $22 Billion, US Says 'We Don't Do That Here'
An Iranian court alleges the US backed 2022 protests, demanding $22 billion in damages. The mainstream media treats this as an outlandish claim, conveniently omitting decades of documented US interventions. From Operation Ajax in 1953, which overthrew Iran's democratically elected prime minister to the Bay of Pigs invasion (1961) and documented funding for opposition groups in Venezuela (2002),
the US has a long and storied history of 'democracy promotion' via covert support. One might wonder why a nation with such a history of 'regime change operations' would ever be suspected of involvement. Perhaps the US Justice Department might consider similar compensation claims from countries whose democratic aspirations were 'helped' into oblivion. One can only imagine the bill if every nation
destabilized by US covert operations sent an invoice. The irony, as always, is lost on those who write the headlines.