When You Read This...

... Think about Venezuela and President Chavez.

" Author Dilip Hiro wrote:

America -- a power that most secular nationalists had initially considered to be benevolently neutral to Iran in its dispute with the British -- had clandestinely allied with Britain to overthrow a government that represented popular nationalist interest. This reprehensible act of the United States left a deep scar on the minds of Iranians, implanting most of them with abiding animosity toward America.'

With the 1979 revolution, came the flight of the Shah and the return of Iran's exiled spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Mousavi Khomeini."

And the rest is History...

I got this via Sean Penn's account of his visit to Iran. Most interesting read:
Iran: Culture in Deep Conflict by Sean Penn