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jlroberson (jlroberson) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-06-18 02:11:00

Current location:	Seattle
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Entry tags:	creator: alan moore, creator: bill sienkiewicz, creator: garth ennis, creator: killian plunkett, genre: satire, theme: history, theme: iran, title: brought to light, title: unknown soldier

Iran: Some History from Ennis & Moore
I've been watching the events in Iran--what one can find out through the web, because the networks are blind--and was reminded of some work by Garth Ennis and Alan Moore that, at least in scraps, helps give a little bit of context to our historical place in this whole mess.

I get annoyed with some crazies on the right suggesting we should intervene in what's going on in Iran. Our intervention was partly at the root of everything since, and it might finally be over and done--if we do not get our dirty fingers on it.
Sigh. Such people need context. Sadly, you can read, so you're not one of them. But you may find this interesting and diverting anyway. Someone else posted an individual Iranian's perspective from PERSEPOLIS. Here is an introduction to the broad political outlines of our rather regrettable history there.
The first is from Garth Ennis & Killian Plunkett's UNKNOWN SOLDIER, and an allegorical view of how we put the Shah into supreme power in the 1950s. For Unknown Soldier, of course, read CIA. Helping, among others, BP.

Secondly, Alan Moore & Bill Sienkewicz' history of the CIA, BROUGHT TO LIGHT, and some material about the Hostage Crisis and Iran-Contra.

Unknown Soldier(c)DC Comics. Brought to Light (c) Alan Moore & Bill Sienkewicz.
And please support the protesters. I'm sure you can see now it's the least we can do.

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jlroberson
2009-06-19 12:32 pm UTC (link)

Oh, no disputing the Mullahs have been and will be brutal, like the Basij who just got a clear signal to break heads from Khamenei's foolish speech. The revolution was only a good thing in that it established a republic as a concept in the first place. The fall of the reactionary mullahs(which are not the only ones--Iran's most senior cleric, who fell from grace for criticizing Khomenei's policies, is on the side of the protesters; Khamenei in fact is not respected as a cleric and was given his position for keeping his nose nice and brown when Khomeini was alive) was implicit, eventually, in the revolution itself--the "supreme leader" is inherently at odds with the concept of a republic.

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