Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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"...The first contingents of Americans looked down on their Iranian brethren and quietly discussed among themselves strategies to achieve their foremost goal: conversion. A special contempt and condescension was reserved for the Muslim majority. "Even Rev. Justin Perkins.....strongly disliked those whom he termed "savage Muhammedans...."

from James Bill

And once upon a time they welcomed and invited Americans to their country, even after the above mentioned period in time.

Hard to imagine...the rest is more recent history.

Mohammad Mosaddeq and
the 1953 Coup in Iran
Edited by Mark J. Gasiorowski and Malcolm Byrne

New Volume Reexamines a Seminal Event
in Modern Middle Eastern History

A Joint U.S.-British Regime-Change Operation in 1953 that Holds Lessons for Today

New Documents Shed Further Light on Secret U.S. Policy

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB126/index.htm