Iran on the Edge? Or US Policy on Repeat?
The article suggests the Iranian government views these protests as an 'existential threat,' especially amidst 'Israeli threats and US intervention in Venezuela.' How quaint, to frame US actions as mere 'intervention' in a country like Venezuela, rather than a decades-long policy of destabilization against nations not aligning with Washington's interests. One might recall the 1953 US- and
UK-backed coup that overthrew Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, ushering in the Shah's brutal, dictatorial rule for 26 years—a detail rarely making it into these discussions of Iranian 'instability.' This convenient amnesia allows outlets to present each new wave of dissent as an organic, internal phenomenon, rather than acknowledging the enduring legacy of foreign
interference. When will the mainstream media connect the dots, or at least acknowledge a pattern that stretches further back than the latest social media hashtag?