Khamenei Vows Crackdown as Bloomberg Forgets US History
Bloomberg dutifully covered Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowing a crackdown on 'external forces' inciting unrest. And while no one's defending authoritarian crackdowns, the mainstream press conveniently forgets the US role in, say, the 1953 coup that overthrew Iran's democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, installing the Shah instead. Or perhaps the decades of
sanctions designed to destabilize the regime? These 'external forces' aren't some amorphous bogeyman; they have a long, documented history. It's almost as if some foreign policy 'analysts' think nations operate in a vacuum. The pattern—US intervention destabilizes, then blames the resulting chaos on an inherent flaw in the targeted nation's people—is as reliable as the sunrise. Funny how 'unrest'
is never quite as shocking when you remember the multi-billion dollar budget for regime change operations.