40 years ago today (Iran Hostage Crisis)

[Revoltingest]

It was a Republican president who installed the Shah in 1953, but instead of focusing their blame on the Republicans, they chose to blame America as a whole.

Based upon what I hear in the news & from Iranian immigrants,
it's not quite that way....they hate our government, but not
Ameristanians as a people.

Most Americans had no idea that we installed the Shah, or even where Iran is.

News flash.....just the other day, I heard an interview on NPR
wherein the interviewee discussed the 1953 coup. (It was about
the 40th anniversary of the hostage situation.) This is a sea
change in NPR's coverage, ie, now airing USA's sins.

So, a little finesse on the Iranians' part might have worked wonders to achieve their objectives, but instead, they chose to be a bunch of wild-eyed fanatics shouting "Death to America" over and over. And now they wonder why America is still mad at them.

I've no hope for finesse from an Islamic theocracy.

But this "death to so-&-so" doesn't mean to Iranians what it
means to westerners. A literal translation changes the meaning.
Consider that they yell things like "death to traffic jams".
Of course they've no intention to kill an excess of cars.

I know a little Russian, & see another example....
If they say "f*** your mother", it's not what we'd infer.
It's roughly equivalent to "meh".