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Submariner

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3. We did this when we installed the Shah of Iran

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Sat Jan 3, 2026, 01:10 PM

Jan 3

after instigating the overthrow of the new democratically elected president of Iran, so that BP and Shell could continue to ~~steal~~ pump Iran's oil for London's oil companies. Truman said don't do it, but Eisenhower gave the okay.

We see how well that turned out.

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