Iran is a perfect example of this. So what happened after our so called successful coup in 1953? The Shah ruled for 25 years with increasing repression. His [the Shah's] repression produced the explosion of the late 1970s, what we call the Islamic Revolution. That revolution brought to power a clique of fanatically anti American mullahs who have been intently and sometimes very violently undermining American interests all over the world. (11:40–27:20)
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Asserts that the Shah's repression led to the Islamic Revolution in the late 1970s.
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