• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I mean, the CIA got him in power to begin with…

    Iran had a relatively progressive democracy before we installed their authoritarian theocracy in exchange for cheap oil. Khamenei was very involved in that.

    Israel has been trying to kill him ever since.