
Forget the “47-year narrative” designed to keep you blind. It’s time to look at a century of extraction—from the early 1900s carve-up of the region for oil through the 1953 CIA-backed coup that toppled a democracy to the crippling sanctions since 1979—and why a 3,000-year-old civilization is finished asking for permission to defend its borders. Read the full breakdown here: Why Iran Should Have a Nuclear Weapon.