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Thursday open thread: The 1953 Roots of 1979

Coup supporters celebrate victory in Tehran. Happy Thursday, everyone. As your Fearless Leader is still recovering from his hospital stay, I decided to search for an educational video on YouTube to share. And since the matter of the moment internationally is the Iran War, I searched for histories on Iran. I found this video, which, really, is the primer you need about how the Islamic Revolution was born out of the CIA-engineered coup in 1953 against the democratically-elected government. Enjoy, everyone.

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