• anticolonialist@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    He also planted seeds in the ME that has allowed the US to always have an unstable relationship in the region

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      2 months ago

      Ronald Reagan prolonged the Iran hostage crisis and then resolved it by selling weapons to Iran - which was illegal. Its a great tragedy that Ronald Reagan wasn’t prosecuted for treason.

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      2 months ago

      The creation of Israel, and the US aided Iranian coup of 1953 both happened a couple decades before Carter.

      Those seeds were planted and had been growing for a while.