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kr0n05931 wrote:Yes, because the United States has totally supported democracy in Iran in the past.

NYT Secrets of History: "The C.I.A. in Iran".
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mi ... index.html

The Central Intelligence Agency's secret history of its covert operation to overthrow Iran's government in 1953 offers an inside look at how the agency stumbled into success, despite a series of mishaps that derailed its original plans.

Written in 1954 by one of the coup's chief planners, the history details how United States and British officials plotted the military coup that returned the shah of Iran to power and toppled Iran's elected prime minister, an ardent nationalist.

The document shows that:

# Britain, fearful of Iran's plans to nationalize its oil industry, came up with the idea for the coup in 1952 and pressed the United States to mount a joint operation to remove the prime minister.

# The C.I.A. and S.I.S., the British intelligence service, handpicked Gen. Fazlollah Zahedi to succeed Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh and covertly funneled $5 million to General Zahedi's REGIME two days after the coup prevailed.

# Iranians working for the C.I.A. and posing as Communists harassed religious leaders and staged the bombing of one cleric's home in a campaign to turn the country's Islamic religious community against Mossadegh's government.

# The shah's cowardice nearly killed the C.I.A. operation. Fearful of risking his throne, the Shah repeatedly refused to sign C.I.A.-written royal decrees to change the government. The agency arranged for the shah's twin sister, Princess Ashraf Pahlevi, and Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the father of the Desert Storm commander, to act as intermediaries to try to keep him from wilting under pressure. He still fled the country just before the coup succeeded.

Brainwashed kr0n05931 wrote:Total Democracy Support. You have to wear green and forgot completely about history.

There is no "real world" religions, or countries like Iran or USA in TMW.
EOT.

Good grief, this starting as a simple request to please wear green, he just decided that it would be something to do, that's fine. Now you're all just abusing him and telling him he doesn't know anything about Iran's history or location or anything, and arguing back anf forward about whether Inspector Shameless and Uber whatever are trolls or not.

The Iranian Green Penguin (Megadyptes virescens) lives in the hollows under the Small Brown Shrub, endemic to Iran, which grows in the Pointy Green Hills of Omgaton. Although its roost is far from the sea, they migrate daily down to Toothgar-Shrum River and into the Great Big Sea. Here they fish for Tickle-smelly Trout, a sea-dwelling fish which eats Wormy Shell-bugs.
Iranian Green Penguins are extremely rare, with an estimated population of just 130 breeding pairs. Their main predator is the Vicious Sea-eagle, which picks them off as they surface for air. This bird was introduced in 1930 to help combat the spread of the Gritty Salmon, which was taken there in 1929 in an effort to eradicate the Warty Stream-snail, a lumpy-shelled mollusk introduced in 1928 to eat the Slimy Stream-kelp, introduced in 1927 to absorb the deadly Rotting-gut Amoeba, introduced accidentally in 1926 with the importation of Brown Trout for use in the fishing industry.
The survival of the Iranian Green Penguin is in doubt.

~ from, Robertson's Guide to the Rare Flightless Sea-birds of Iran.
Enchilado

Enchilado! wrote:Good grief, this starting as a simple request to please wear green, he just decided that it would be something to do, that's fine. Now you're all just abusing him and telling him he doesn't know anything about Iran's history or location or anything, and arguing back anf forward about whether Inspector Shameless and Uber whatever are trolls or not.

Seriously, all this was was a request. The trolls take this way too far.

By the way, the trolls are falling on my ignore list like flies on honey.

"Virescens" is Latin for light green. "Megadyptes" is a genus of real penguins.

~ I don't think "megacute" is Latin for anything,
Enchilado

Uber_Kalimero wrote:Let us make things clear to the players community :
I don't agree to have to support US foreign politics to keep on playing this game.

Can't be clearer.

This is not a U.S. thing, this is a human rights problem. If you didn't notice, the president and the majority of congress were very clear that the "Iranian people will decide their future". Just because I'm from the United States and I support something, doesn't mean that it's a U.S. thing. I could say, "I support France's democracy", but that wouldn't make France's democratic dealings the United States' problem.

I don't know where you get the idea that this is mandatory. I never said as such. If you didn't notice, I said, "Please wear green." not, "Wear green or else".