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role in Iran's repression
Christian Science Monitor, February 22, 2006
Robert Naiman, Just Foreign Policy
Your Feb. 17 editorial, "Toppling Tehran isn't a tea party," on US efforts to encourage opposition to the present Iranian government among Iran's citizens states that "Iran's long history of authoritarian regimes has left a culture that may not be able to sustain such necessary tolerance." There is something unseemly about criticizing the history of such regimes without acknowledging the role of the US in creating them - most notoriously, the US role in the overthrow of the democratically elected Mossadeq government in 1954 and subsequent support for the shah's rule. Perhaps if we were more forthright about our own responsibility for the past lack of democracy in Iran, it might contribute to a more constructive and successful US policy toward the present Iranian government.
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