khomeini would unlikely have come to power but for a joint CIA\MI5 engineered coup that put the Shah back in power, who then with the US armed and trained SAVAK secret police ruled Iran un til the Student led revolution that also saw an occupied American embassy..one btw Canada helped evacuate.

Had Iran been allowed to continue at the run of the fifties under the rule of a prime minister and parliament with a nationalized oil industry, who knows what Iram might look like today?

Yes 911 changed an awful lot in this world and the US was struck for a bucnh of reasons but responded maginificently

Yes that was a question posed to Saddam in captivity. Why did you just say allow us to verify you had no WMD

He said that as its national leader, it would be irresponsible for him to say he did not have any

From a book I read by one of his interviewers

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