Seventy years ago this week, the US and the UK overthrew the Iranian leader Mohammad Mossadegh, who had fought back against British imperialism by nationalizing the oil company now known as BP. The UK has yet to acknowledge its role in this travesty.
    • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      It still is. At least according to the western understanding of democracy. They have regular presidential elections.

      It’s not democratic by the socialist definition of democracy but then neither are any of the western liberal democracies.