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5/2/20

Iran and the US: The Ayatollah in the White House - by Stephen Richter -

Since the 1950s, the history of the United States and of Iran has been amazingly intertwined.

Unfortunately, at decisive turns in history, the two countries’ relationship was a tragic one. T

The action taken by one typically triggered disastrous effects in the other.

Usually, the lubricant that facilitated – and also doomed – the interaction between the two nations was the question of the ownership of, or easy access to, oil.

That was the case, for example, when the U.S. government at the time collaborated with the UK on toppling the duly elected government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953. He was ousted in a coup just because he wanted to have the Iranian people benefit from the spoils of their nation’s oil re

Or when the U.S. government in the 1970s clung to the ever more despotic acting Shah of Iran. U.S. protection was not only insufficient to prevent, but also actually fomented the Shah’s eventual ouster in the popular, religiously inspired Iranian revolution of 1979.

But of late, stunning parallels between Donald Trump and Ayatollah Khameini have come into sight. While Donald Trump does not wear a black turban, like the ayatollahs of Iran, his hairdo is no less prominent or protrusive. In addition, it is far more colorful.

Another bewildering commonality between the religious leaders of Iran and the current U.S. President is even more troublesome. The fact that Trump’s relationship to science, evidence and the truth is on par with that of the Ayatollahs, is probably his greatest betrayal of American traditions. 

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