Actually it was called the Iran-Contra Affair.
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Does that mean Iran taking hostages wasn't a problem?
Does Reagan making a deal with Iran mean that both Iran and Reagan are good guys? Or does it mean they're both bad guys?
Not sure how "Reagan = bad" changes anything about the act of taking diplomats hostage.
So the people who took the hostages were the Islamic fundamentalists who only came to power because the US fucked over the communist movement. In the late 70’s, as the Shah’s regime was collapsing, the CIA chose to support the Islamists over the commies in Iran, and this was the predictable result.
Do you get your understanding of the world from Marvel movies?
'Murica has always treated action movies like documentaries
Remember how they didn't mostly sit out of WWII, how they didn't quite like the Nazis, and how they didn't cause massive casualties to their allies?
Oh, and they totally didn't give safe harbour to nazis when it suited them...
This is true, the USSR might have done 80% of the fighting, but the US still mobilized its entire economy for the war and had 12% of the total population in the actual military.
It's even more ahistorical to say they mostly say out than that the US single-handedly fought WW2.
Imagine simping for Ronald Reagan. Just wow.
It was a problem that would have been solved much sooner if people who crave power and authority didn't meddle and prolong the problem for their own benefit.
It means that calling the Iran a "problem state" is pretty dishonest because most states, especially the USA are also problem states.
This is just making an argument based on distraction. Person A did something bad but hey look over here Person B also did something bad so stop thinking of the bad thing Person A did!
Why is it so hard just to admit Iran's government sucks? They execute people on a massive scale, support terrorism across the Middle East, and are currently trying to hold the world's economy hostage by breaking international law and targeting civilian shipping in an international waterway.
There's abuser's logic going on here where something bad happens to you and you think it makes it fine to hurt others. The US is responsible for their bad actions and Iran is responsible for their bad actions. Bad actions by the US doesn't justify Iran's bad actions towards others.
Sure, Reagan, Bush, Trump have done or are currently doing shitty things and stupid things. But that doesn't make Iran's government the good guys.
I am in no way saying either that Iran is by any measure better than the USA or that actions of the USA justify Irans actions.. I am also neither a USA nor an Iranian citizen or have any connection to either state besides my country having commercial relations with both.
You need to wrap your head around the fact that the original post about remembering stuff about Iran is a distraction piece to pull focus away from the atrocities that the USA is committing.
Or to put it in your words: why is it so hard for you to just admit that the USA are killing people on a massive scale in places nowhere near their territory, topple democratically legitimized governments for their own gains, and let governmentally supported thugs roam their streets terrorizing and killing their own population? Not to mention holding the global economy hostage regularly. Why do you need to point to other countries? Do other countries being bad make these actions okay?