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KC Erasmus's avatar

Something conveniently forgotten about, as the US replaced Iranian democracy with theor own dictator, the "Shah of Iran", a figurehead, something they have repeated in the Ukraine.

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Mike Hampton's avatar

The citizen of the empire rarely know their history. After all, they are on the frontline of their empire's propaganda.

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Darkstar's avatar

3 years before I was born. When I was growing up, the only thing we knew about was the Vietnam War..

We didn't know where Iran was ,nor did we care.its no longer amazing to find out about my country's meddling in others affairs.

Thanks for the npr podcast.

It's always nice to learn something new 😌

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Mike Hampton's avatar

Many Americans don’t know where Palestine, Ukraine and Georgia are. Some, as the internet shows, can’t name the continents.

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Anne's avatar

How quickly Kuenssberg this morning cut off the Muslim woman who tried to let people know a little of the history of Iran which is important. This contrasted greatly with the time given to the Israeli Ambassador who spouted the same old propaganda and who should have been challenged.

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Mike Hampton's avatar

Please share link, and, if it’s long, then copy link with time set to a minute before.

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Anne's avatar

I don't have a link but it's a weekly tv Sunday morning BBC1 political show starts 9am called "Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg".

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Mike Hampton's avatar

C'mon, it took me a single search - https://youtu.be/J-WGwuby-bI

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Mike Hampton's avatar

To find her channel, that is. I'm watching that one which clearly shows that they're trying to paint the Iranian public as evil.

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Anne's avatar

That's the Newscast programme she appears on along with similar minded influencers. Her main one is Sunday morning. BTW I'm not up on links being MUCH older than you!

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AKcidentalwriter's avatar

That is real history. many do not know that now due to dilution of history being lost to the 24/7 news cycle.

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