U.S. Labels Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a Foreign Terrorist Organization
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That being said, I can't say they are not scumbags.
I did in fact find this single example: "a 2011 plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the US and bomb the Israeli and Saudi embassies in Washington, D.C.[37]"
I'll just say this flat out, as an American civilian, I don't get the impression that Iran has made any real attempt to terrorize me. Not once have I ever been afraid of dying at the hands of an Iranian bomb. I think America's stance towards Iran has more to do with Iran's stance towards Israel than it does with Iran's stance towards me. Israel, despite their claims to the contrary, is a nuclear power. They're big boys, they can handle Iran themselves. Why does America need to get involved in their spat? Hasn't America meddled enough in Iran over the past century?
>"The military coup that overthrew Mossadeq and his National Front cabinet was carried out under CIA direction as an act of U.S. foreign policy, conceived and approved at the highest levels of government," the document says, using a variation of the spelling of Mossadegh's name. While this might be the CIA's first formal nod, the U.S. role has long been known. President Barack Obama acknowledged the United States' involvement in the coup during a 2009 speech in Cairo. "In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government," the president said.