He’s saying that the US is responsible for the Ayatollahs being in power (even though that wasn’t the intent) because they installed the Shah who the people didn’t want the but was friendly to US interests.
So I think it’s accurate to say that the US unintentionally ushered the current regime into power by putting in an unpopular puppet dictator to replace an elected leader who was popular with his people (Mossadegh).
I don’t think anyone is saying that the Shah was a good ruler. He was NOT, and he was propped up by US, UK because he was friendly to their interests. That’s the whole problem that is the reason the current regime was put in place in 1979.
Prior to the Shah, Iranians had a better regime but it wasn’t friendly to US, UK interests so was overthrown by the US, UK.
The “lesson learned” should have been that meddling in regime change can result in a worse outcome. US, UK thought the democratically elected regime wasn’t friendly enough to them, they installed the Shah, then ended up instead with an even less friendly regime.
Now we see the Republicans didn’t learn that lesson, because their voters largely don’t know the history. So here we are again, tried to meddle in regime change and likely just made their regime stronger and even less friendly.
I’ve always enjoyed it more that Ocarina of Time but I get that Ocarina is more of the classic Zelda experience. There’s a quirkiness to Majora’s Mask that I really like and I know the game really well at this point so it’s always a blast to play through.
The recompiled Majora’s ran perfectly on my PC but I’m still struggling to find the right settings and texture pack for Ocarina to get it to run as crisp on my PC.
Majora’s Mask would be a lot less fun to play without two somewhat hidden Ocarina songs, the Inverted Song of Time and the Song of Double Time, otherwise it can get frustrating having to reset the cycle too often. Typically what you’re supposed to do is reach some milestone (like obtaining a mask or learning a song) and then reset the cycle so that you can start the dungeon on a fresh cycle.
I do want to get Ocarina going and play through that though, I figured I’d wait for it to be available in the same N64 recompile setup that Majora’s runs in to see if it runs better than SoH.
I’m always down for a replay of Majora’s Mask
Iran elects popular leader who wants oil revenue to benefit his people instead of foreign interests -> US installs the Shah who is unpopular but friendly to US oil interests -> Iranian revolution of 1979 installs the current regime.
And your solution to this is… more regime change? Shouldn’t the US have learned a lesson?
Maybe a more recent lesson would make more sense?
Iraq regime is unfriendly to the US - US takes out Saddam’s regime -> Rise of ISIS -> US has a huge mess to clean up now in both Iraq and Syria -> forever war continues.
At what point do we admit that US interventions probably aren’t a good idea?