🔴REACT: We Were SO WRONG About the 1953 CIA Iran Coup 🤯 This Blew My Mind

Welcome to Meaning-Making 101 where we explore the crisis of meaning in our world today, and how we may help usher in an awakening from it. This episode, we react to one of the most eye-opening videos we've seen on modern history: "The True Story of the CIA Coup in Iran and the Islamic Revolution" from @DadSavesAmerica For years we (like millions of others) believed the standard narrative: The CIA and MI6 orchestrated a brutal coup in 1953 to overthrow democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and "install" the Shah purely for oil and Cold War power plays. Ron Paul cited it, Obama apologized for it, and it's been used to blame the West for the 1979 Islamic Revolution and everything that followed. However, this video completely flips the script. Mosaddegh wasn’t democratically elected in the way we think, he was appointed by the Shah. In fact, Mosaddegh tried to dissolve the Iranian parliament. Not only that, the Shah had full constitutional authority to remove him, and the real driver wasn’t a Western plot but Mosaddegh’s own unpopularity and incompetence. We’ll dive into: What Operation Ajax actually was (and wasn’t) The Shah’s modernization of Iran (women’s rights, education, economy) Why the 1979 Islamic Revolution had almost ZERO causal link to 1953 How leftist narratives have shaped our view of Iran for decades This one genuinely changed how we see U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Drop your thoughts in the chat. Does this surprise you as well? Were you also taught that lie that became the “official” story for decades? Watch the original video here: If you enjoyed this Smash Like ,

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This episode was published on Mar 25, 2026.

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