Why They Hate Us, Nixon Division
Student Day in Iran, a chance for leftists to recall their people who died protesting Richard Nixon’s visit after the CIA installed the Shah in power, and a chance for the current regime to try and take credit for opposition to the Shah they took no part in.
“Prior to the Islamic Revolution these memorials always met with police interference. Since then, the government supported these annual events as an expression of the ‘nation’s strong disapproval of the US policy.”