• @Maggoty
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    15 months ago

    Women were going to school under the Shah. I think you’ve confused the Iranian revolution with the CIA coup.

    • LustyArgonian
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      15 months ago

      https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthrew-irans-democracy-in-four-days

      Mossadegh thought he was in the clear, but Roosevelt hadn’t given up. He orchestrated a second coup, which succeeded. Mossadegh was placed on trial and spent his life under house arrest. The shah returned to power and ruled for another 25 years until the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The 1953 coup was later invoked by students and the political class in Iran as a justification for overthrowing the shah.

      • @Maggoty
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        25 months ago

        I’m not disputing the CIA’s role in Iranian history. Just the history of women’s rights. They didn’t go down the shitter until the shah was overthrown in the revolution.

        • LustyArgonian
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          25 months ago

          Okay, thank you for the nuance, I appreciate that