Iran's 'Foreign Foes' Conveniently Miss US History
Iranian leaders, amid domestic protests, are warning 'foreign foes' against interference, threatening to 'cut off the hand of any aggressor.' Meanwhile, Western media, including Al Jazeera, dutifully reports this as a generic threat, rather than a response to a documented history of foreign influence. Remember the 1953 US- and UK-backed coup that overthrew democratically elected Prime Minister
Mohammad Mosaddegh? Or the US financial support during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, despite Saddam's use of chemical weapons? Such facts are often memory-holed when convenient. It appears selective amnesia is a prerequisite for discussing geopolitics with a clean conscience. One might wonder if 'foreign foes' are less a rhetorical device and more a recapitalization of historical grievances
conveniently ignored by those who prefer to present intervention as benevolent democracy-spreading. How many 'warnings' does a nation get before global media acknowledges their warnings have historical precedence?