A 1953 C.I.A.-backed coup that ousted Iran’s Cold War leader has colored U.S.-Iran relations for decades
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The CIA & MI6 Staged Coup in Iran 70 Years Ago, Destroying Democracy in Iran
“Earth or Death!” — Hugo Blanco (1934-2023)
Major strikes in Iran and the UK, repression in Germany and Swaziland, and more
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Iranian American screen polymath Payman Maadi (who made such an impact in films such as Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation) is Samad, a cop waging an apparently unwinnable war on drugs in the Iranian capital. Having rounded up a vast community of addicts living and dying within a hellscape of giant concrete pipes, Samad and his deputy, Hamid (Houman Kiai), treat their captives like cattle, stripping and humiliating them, herding them from one overcrowded prison space to the next.
While US media fixated on Russian interference in the 2016 election, an Israeli secret agent’s campaign to influence the outcome went unreported.
A planet haunted by democratic upheavals
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