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In reply to the discussion: I honestly don't get what's so special about Iran. [View all]Ol Janx Spirit
(957 posts)47. The 9/11 Commission found no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior officials...
...directly funded al-Qaeda--but of course that doesn't mean they didn't.
But, even under President Obama the U.S, maintained strong security cooperation and over $90 billion in arms sales, so clearly we've had an entirely different relationship with the Saudi government.
I don't see a perfect analog with Iran.
But hey, Saudi Arabia certainly has "laundered" their reputation with the current President haven't they?
I guess Iran didn't get the memo on where to deposit their money to avoid this "war"....
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Iran became "evil" in 1951, when Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil
sop
9 hrs ago
#26
Under the deal negotiated by the Obama administration, they were giving up their path to any means of doing so.
redgreenandblue
11 hrs ago
#10
You mean the land formerly known as Persia? You're right. Nothing special about it.
Intractable
10 hrs ago
#13
Trump: "It is the greatest killing of a Persian leader since Alexander killed Darius and took his rugs"
dalton99a
9 hrs ago
#30
They have been attacking us through proxies since 1979. We cannot pretend that...
Ol Janx Spirit
9 hrs ago
#24
I suppose that they should have just allowed the US and UK to control their country to steal their oil then?
ihaveaquestion
8 hrs ago
#36
They have every right to feel resentment towards America and the west, but that doesn't justify...
Ol Janx Spirit
4 hrs ago
#46
The 9/11 Commission found no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior officials...
Ol Janx Spirit
4 hrs ago
#47
"You're foolin' yourself! We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working class...
Ray Bruns
10 hrs ago
#20
The thing about Iran is that Trump is in the Epstein files more than 1,000,000 times
Blues Heron
9 hrs ago
#29