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Just finished reading All the Shah’s Men, an account of the CIA sponsored coup that in 1953 overthrew a nascent Iranian democracy and reinstalled the Shah as a despot. Fascinating. Among other tidbits, turns out General H. “Stormin’” Norman Schwarzkopf’s papa was one of the men who built the Shah’s police force, and Kermit Roosevelt — grandson of President Teddy — was the CIA’s chief executor of the plot.

This is a must-read for anyone who wants some additional background on the current conflict with Iran. And I gotta tell ya’, if I’m an Iranian politician, staring down a country, political party, and several families who’ve done my country terrible injustices time and again over the past half-century, I’d probably want a bomb, too.