The Exceptionally American Historical Amnesia Behind Pompeo's Claim of '40 Years of Unprovoked Iranian Aggression'

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The Exceptionally American Historical Amnesia Behind Pompeo's Claim of '40 Years of Unprovoked Iranian Aggression'
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Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams.

Someone attacked two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman last week. The Trump administration wants the world to believe that Iran is the culprit. Yet there is no serious evidence that Tehran was behind the attacks on the Norwegian and Japanese ships. Not only is there no proof of Iran ian involvement, such an attack by Iran makes no sense at all. Japan and Iran are friends.

'Unprovoked Aggression?' Forty years ago, long-simmering animosity toward the United States inevitably boiled over, culminating in the now-familiar events of those 444 days in 1979-81. Instead of acknowledging its role in stoking the flames of revolt, the Carter and Ronald Reagan administrations partnered with an even worse dictator than the Shah, Saddam Hussein in neighboring Iraq, as it attempted to thwart Iran's nascent Islamic Republic.

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