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slack3rdav3
The oil crisis of the 50s led to the development of the Mini.
Pelican3
And now the Shah’s kid thinks he can just drop into the kingship from Lubbock Texas.
DrewThe3DPrinterGuy
Haishao
There's a small free steam game about it named The cat and the coup
chatawillybilly
They overthrew a democracy and installed a puppet dictator which led to the current religious regime.
ElusiveThing
And about 30 years later the US helped their amazing friend Saddam gas the Iranians. Probably in the name of freedom or whatever.
orp0piru
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_massacre
nefroye
Iranian nationalism is certainly no better than what was there before. Ask the Iranians how they feel about it. Actually don't, because if they answer truthfully they get executed.
GordonFreeman59
Iranian national pride is old, and the Irak-Iran war in the 80's helped to cement national unity. Even opponants of the regime (that's most of Iranian really) have a strong sense of national identity because of the war. Hundreds of thousands of deaths will do that to most countries.
nefroye
Yes but that doesn't make it a good thing. That type of unification doesn't really exist now anymore, and what nationalism is there is mostly oriented towards the Ayatollah / Shia regime in power, which is tyrannical and bad. There are different flavors of nationalism - the general sense of "united against the Iraqis" is gone. Now it's "nationalism" against the non-Shia world, including the Iranian Sunnis.