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Iran has been in Western media headlines a lot recently — and as usual, it’s for all the wrong reasons. Despite the media hype about a “revolution” coming to Iran, events over the last month have a distinctly counter-revolutionary whiff about them. This is clearly the case, despite the fact that there are no doubt legitimate grievances with the Iranian government to be had. But the Western media, almost without exception, always follows the line of Western governments and intelligence agencies. The very same agencies that have been working to overthrow the Iranian government for decades (and which carried out a successful coup against the elected prime minister of Iran in 1953 so that they could to steal Iran’s oil).