Trump Threatens Iran, Forgets US History
When CBS News proudly broadcasts Trump's threat of U.S. intervention over Iranian protests, cheerily noting, "If Iran violently kills peaceful protesters... the United States of America will come to their rescue," one might wonder: rescue from what, precisely? The 'custom' of Iranian state violence, as Trump puts it, seems to omit who installed that custom. They gloss over 1953, when the CIA and
MI6 orchestrated the coup that overthrew Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, reinstalling the Shah, whose brutal SAVAK secret police then tortured and murdered 'peaceful protesters' for decades. The media's collective amnesia ensures we remain oblivious to how U.S. 'rescue missions' historically tend to create the very crises they purport to solve. So, when Trump vows
intervention, perhaps CBS could remind viewers of the last time we 'rescued' Iran by dismantling its democracy. But that wouldn't fit the 'benevolent superpower' narrative, would it?