and put the shah in his place. When the Iranians deposed the shah there were various factions jockeying for control and Reagan's henchmen allied with the authoritarian mullahs, agreeing to provide them with military hardware - against US law, effectively ensuring that the authoritarian side would win control in exchange for keeping the US hostages until Reagan won.
I'm not optimistic that this US backed regime change will go any better.

Edit: I think that Iran has lost. Again.

Women, children, immigrants, minorities, LBGTQ+, you name it.

These are weak, empty people. They seem to take special delight in harming children.

Of course, they de-humanize victims, in their sick, diabolical thinking.

How to deal with them? Hearts and minds? They are frozen and closed.

Here's how.
Using racism as a placeholder for all the inhumanity above,

In an early post, I quoted Ibram X. Kendi.

https://democraticunderground.com/100216524810

This is from the epilogue of "Stamped From the Beginning", by Ibram X Kendi.

...inflation, Producer price inflation report came in at 3.6% right before the bombing started. Gotta bury the bad news with other news.

AND Infuriating! Malignant trump is reported to be going to speak at the UN next month, with "Children" as one of her pet interests.

She should get Booed Off the Podium.