Iran, Third World People and U.S. Foreign Policy, Palestine Perspectives, 1979
A 1979 editorial from Palestine Perspectives argues that the Iranian Revolution was a direct response to decades of U.S. imperialism, specifically the CIA-MI6 coup in 1953 that overthrew a democracy to install the brutal, Western-backed dictatorship of the Shah.
This is a good read. Accurate and well written. American's at the time did not understand the context of the revolution. The Shah was portrayed in America the way the British Royal family was and Iran was a far away place. For most Americans the Iranian revolution was like a bolt of lightning in a blue sky. Knowledge of the Shah's excesses was not common knowledge.
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In coverage of the war against Iran, a familiar choreography is playing out again, one that the media have carefully refined to exploit the perceived credibility of diaspora groups in order to push war and empire. This phenomenon of selectively and specifically amplifying diaspora voices who will cheerlead for war is now a well-documented feature of the American media ecosystem.