217
Iranian TV censors Finnish FM's legs
(yle.fi)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2025
217 points (100.0% liked)
Not The Onion
18258 readers
1968 users here now
Welcome
We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
The Rules
Posts must be:
- Links to news stories from...
- ...credible sources, with...
- ...their original headlines, that...
- ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Please also avoid duplicates.
Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
*Before the U.S assassinated their democratic secular leader who didn't want foreign companies owning all their resources so the people in their own country weren't dirt poor like Africa.
I believe you're talking about the CIA backed coup in 1953.
This picture would have been taken during the period where Iran was ruled by the Western puppet Shah.
But the point still stands, tough to imagine the Iranian Revolution of 1979 if there had never been a Western coup and over 25 years of effectively Western rule.
Yes I didn't clarify that but I know the history a decent bit. They installed an internationalist far right government and the Iranians overthrew that government, leading to the modern state.
And the "modern" state is a highly progressive (not) "guided republic" led by mostly illiterate mullahs who aspire to force Iran back to medieval despotism. It's rule by religious conservatives, not a contrast to far-right government-- the only difference is the internationalist part.
In some ways I understand. If they did anything less they would be denationalized and since Persians aren't considered white really they would get a way worse deal. The vast majority of the people would be homeless and starving while armed propagandized guards protected international companies exporting every valuable resource out of the country. The unfortunate part about Iran is the religious stuff. Religions are terrible. They ruin the happiness of most of the population.