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Maybe partially. The socialist governments wanted secularism, got overthrown by the CIA, then that government got overthrown by theocrats. How much of Iranian society supports these policies regardless of the US’ intervention, I don’t know
No, not partially. Entirely. When you destroy the left, you get the right taking power. And the fact that the theocrats were more popular than the CIA puppet should tell you a lot.
The US installed a regime so terrible Iran chose a religious autocrat over that