Devin
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- Jun 17, 2009
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The idea that the popular opposition to Ahmadinejad constitutes opposition to the ideals of the Islamic Revolution itself is absurd. Iranians may not desire excessively theocratic or authoritarian policies, but neither do they desire the institution of Western secularism in Iran, which is an Islamic republic and will remain such for the conceivable future. American neoconservatives and interventionists who dislike this reality have only their own ideology to blame. The destruction of parliamentary democracy in Iran was the legacy of the Eisenhower administration's imperialism, and is one of the many reasons for a general dislike of America as a whole today in that region, though it's certainly not the case that the entire citizenry here harbor the same anti-democratic sentiments as the more imperialistic among us.
OK Agnapostate, you're going back farther than my lifetime here in your post and I did not study Iranian history, so...what happened during Eisenhower's administration in Iran? What did he do that Iranians did not like?