The United States decided to we would topple the democratic government of Iran. 1953, the US through the CIA, engineered a coup. We toppled the democratic government. We installed the Shah, a dictator. We funded the secret police of the Shah who tortured, exiled, imprisoned and killed thousands of Iranians. And the US Basically put this puppet government, a dictator over the Iranian people from 1953 to until they finally tired of it and they cast that government off in 1979. (08:21–08:31)
CLAIM
Asserts that the US installed the Shah in Iran and funded his secret police.
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