[news] Looming War on Iran Not About Democracy

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

According to the [Iranian] revolution's first president Bani Sadr and the US Ambassador William Sullivan, the [clerical] dictatorship was, at the very least, encouraged by the US Embassy in Iran, who preferred a military/clerical junta to a left-leaning democratic state. The army's unpopularity made its participation impossible, so the clerics replaced it with the Revolutionary Guard. That dictatorship exists today, albeit in a different form, with the primary difference being that laws are passed by representatives but are subject to the review of the clerics.

  


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