The story was about a prisoner of conscience in Iran. Did you just take the opportunity to rant about U.S. foreign policy?
I'm not sure how U.S. foreign policy would excuse Iran of its human rights abuses.
I'm not sure how U.S. foreign policy would excuse Iran of its human rights abuses.
Also - the Shah in direction with Falsafi started the anti-Bahai campaigns in 1955, which had not been going on under Iran's parliament. The US puts in a puppet, in less than two years he stirs up a massive anti-Bahai campaign which involves riots, lynchings. You seem to be in complete shock, you want to be a westerner being pious and holier-than-thou against something the west itself did, against the will of Mossadegh and the elected parliament of Iran.
I.e. standard western fiddling about going catastrophically wrong for everyone.
The US and shah and Savak did too well stamping out secularism, left-wing ideas, even liberal ideas about parliament, democracy etc. Eventually the ayatollahs and Bazaari etc. amassed great power, and turned on the Shah.
Mossadegh was never in the pocket of the ayatollahs, but he did try to qualm moderates like Kashani. But Kashani eventually turned on him (the hard-line preachers had far before).