Iran's Rise and Fall: What History Actually Shows
The Ben Shapiro Show
The Daily Wire
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 2:10.7 | Whenever you open X or TikTok, you're guaranteed to be subjected to the most backward, |
| 2:15.9 | historically illiterate takes imaginable, |
| 2:18.3 | that a lot of things. |
| 2:20.3 | These days, a lot of those takes involve Iran. |
| 2:22.3 | Tax will tell you that the United States is the aggressor in the region. |
| 2:26.3 | They'll tell you that if we just played nice, if we just apologize to Iran for our history, |
| 2:32.3 | then peace would break out everywhere. |
| 2:37.6 | Yeah, so that's bullshit. |
| 2:42.0 | So as the war in Iran continues, let's look at exactly how we got here from the beginnings of the conflict right up until the current day. |
| 2:44.7 | Essentially, I did what no other president was willing to do. |
| 2:48.6 | If you've ever argued with a college sophomore who just took an intro to Middle Eastern |
| 2:52.5 | Studies class, they will immediately shout Operation Ajax at you. |
| 2:56.5 | That, of course, is the operation the CIA initiated in 1953 to remove Muhammad Mossadeh, |
| 3:02.2 | who was the prime minister of Iran. |
| 3:04.1 | They will tell you that Iran was a beautiful, flourishing utopian democracy until the |
| 3:08.3 | evil nefarious CIA swooped in, overthrew Mossadegh, and installed a brutal dictator in the |
| 3:13.4 | Shah. Therefore, everything that Iran does today is simply understandable blowback for American |
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