In yet another of hisramblingTruth Social posts,Donald Trumpentertains a number of fantasies about Iran and two former presidents. The post is so inaccurate and misleading that it deserves to be corrected, not that facts and reality will sway loyal MAGA followers.

Iran has been playing games with the United States, and the rest of the World, for 47 years (DELAY, DELAY, DELAY!), and then finally hit “pay dirt” when Barack Hussein Obama became President.

Screenshot from Trump’s Truth Social

Trump and MAGA often claim Iran has attacked the United States for nearly five decades. It is using this claim as a predicate for the latest military strikes on Iran. From the occupation of the US embassy in Tehran to Iranian involvement in the Iraq war and occupation, the Trump administration alleges Iran has been at war with the US for decades.

Image: Portrait of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1973 (Public Domain)

The November 4, 1979 “Iran hostage crisis.” Initially, the storming and occupation of the embassy was a response to the US allowingMohammad Reza Pahlavito enter the United States to receive treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Prior to the occupation, the Tehran embassy had CIA officers working under diplomatic cover. Theembassy filesseized by the students include CIA cables and other classified materials, including information on covert contacts, exfiltration-related activity, operational intelligence reporting on military and political matters.

“One of the most important of these is the sensitive relationship between our regular diplomats—career officers of the Foreign Service—and the intelligence bureaucracies, primarily the CIA,” notes theAlicia Patterson Foundation. The “Captured Documents,” tediously reassembled after paper shredding, reveal how the CIA was anxious to rebuild its network of local agents, many of which had been destroyed during the Islamic revolution.

For obvious reasons, the Iranian people were opposed to the presence of the CIA in the country.

In 1953, the CIA and British intelligence initiated theOperation Ajax coupafter democratically electedMohammad Mossadeghnationalized Iran’s oil in response to foreign exploitation and control over its oil resources.

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was installed as dictator. His government employed oppressive measures against political dissent. In 1957, theSAVAKsecret police (Sâzemân-e Ettelâ’ât va Amniyat-e Kešvar, Organization of Intelligence and Security of the Nation), trained by the CIA and Israel’s Mossad, was organized under the Pahlavi dynasty. It conducted widespread surveillance, media censorship, and interrogations. SAVAK’storture methodsincluded “electric shock, whipping, beating, inserting broken glass and pouring boiling water into the rectum, tying weights to the testicles, and the extraction of teeth and nails.”

Source: Global Research