Nightshadow (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} illusionbreaker) wrote,@ 2009-06-24 19:20:00 |
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Okay, I must have been alive for too long...
It's the only explanation for what I'm seeing here. History can't go full circle so quickly.
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slide
See if you can spot what the problem is with the photo. The photo was taken on the 21st of this month.
Done?
No idea what the telling point is?
Okay, time for me to crack out basic Middle Eastern History 101.
What is wrong with the picture is simple. It's the flag.
Still no clue?
That's the flag of the Shah, that ruled Iran until the mid 1970s, until the Iranian Revolution, which involved the Iranian US Embassy hostage crisis.
Don't know the guy?
Well, let's put it this way. You heard of Pinochet of Chile? You know, that dicator? I'm sure you've heard of the guy, I hope. The Shah of Iran was described as worse than that guy.
And people are waving HIS flag around? Even though it's only been 30 years since the guy was last around with his feared secret police?
If this isn't some sort of setup, then the Iranians have to had collectively brainwashed themselves into forgetting their history, because well, it's well within human memory. If it IS a setup, it means the CIA and Mossad have their hands in Iranian politics again. (If you're asking why I say 'again' it's because of the fact that what happened was that the Shah took over an elected President of Iran's spot by force, with help from those two outfits.)
I didn't expect history to turn full circle that quickly because it shouldn't revolve that quick, or I must be getting really old, really fast and I haven't noticed.
It's the only explanation for what I'm seeing here. History can't go full circle so quickly.
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slide
See if you can spot what the problem is with the photo. The photo was taken on the 21st of this month.
Done?
No idea what the telling point is?
Okay, time for me to crack out basic Middle Eastern History 101.
What is wrong with the picture is simple. It's the flag.
Still no clue?
That's the flag of the Shah, that ruled Iran until the mid 1970s, until the Iranian Revolution, which involved the Iranian US Embassy hostage crisis.
Don't know the guy?
Well, let's put it this way. You heard of Pinochet of Chile? You know, that dicator? I'm sure you've heard of the guy, I hope. The Shah of Iran was described as worse than that guy.
And people are waving HIS flag around? Even though it's only been 30 years since the guy was last around with his feared secret police?
If this isn't some sort of setup, then the Iranians have to had collectively brainwashed themselves into forgetting their history, because well, it's well within human memory. If it IS a setup, it means the CIA and Mossad have their hands in Iranian politics again. (If you're asking why I say 'again' it's because of the fact that what happened was that the Shah took over an elected President of Iran's spot by force, with help from those two outfits.)
I didn't expect history to turn full circle that quickly because it shouldn't revolve that quick, or I must be getting really old, really fast and I haven't noticed.
