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Originally Posted by NCB
1. If there was anyone twisting the truth, it was you. I'm not the one who implied that the Iranians had enjoyed a long history of democracy which in actuality existed for only 4 years and was over 50 years ago.
2. Irony and hypocrisy in govt has existed since the beginings of govt, even in Canada. Its naive to think that it still doesnt exist everywhere.
3. He was hardly a moderate. That said, I dont necessarily agree with the US intervention to overthrow him back then
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NCB: The point is the Iranian people brought about their own organically grown (for lack of a better word) democracy. They didn't have it forced on them. They didn't even go to war for it. They brought it about through the natural course of political growth and maturity.
No it wasn't a long history (I never said, or implied that it was) but that doesn't mean that they didn't enjoy it any less.
And yes, he, and those who worked to bring about the new system of government, were moderate compared to what came after. They were just the sort of people that we see every day running functioning democracies around the world.
Just because he didn't agree with British rule over the oil fields does not make him "hardly a moderate".