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This is what makes it theft. It wasn't that kid's oil pumps. The rest of that paragraph is just rhetorical flavor.

The non-retarded approach would have been to tax the oil wells. UK and the US wouldn't have sponsored a coup if there was a reasonable tax and regulation of those oil wells instead of a larcenous seizure of the whole deal.

Further, we just need to look at present day Venezuela to see where the "democracy" of Iran would have gone, if that coup hadn't succeeded. The present Venezuelan government succeeded where that Iranian government failed. And it's turned into a man-made disaster with something like 6 million refugees over the past ten years.

What's funny is how the information about whether or not they [9/11 attackers] were *actually* backed by the KSA government is still classified.

And by "backed" you mean what? If you merely mean that you don't know, well, so what? If you mean specific actions such as planning, funding, etc were carried out, then you'll need evidence not its lack.

If I'm understanding this right you left a word out. A case for Iran and Israël coöperating? We've only been partners for centuries. Iran is the only large Muslim country that still has a significant Jewish population, and doesn't suppress them (at least notably moreso than the rest of the population.) Jews and Persians have been living side by side and respecting each other in Iran for well over 2k years. There's no reason the countries should not coöperate as well, in the large view. In the small view, they do not coöperate because the Israëli government feels perfectly safe within their US umbrella, feels no need to compromise with anyone.

I present as counterevidence, the fact [wikipedia.org] that the Jewish population in Iran went from ~140-150k in 1948 to under 10k by 2012, and the fact that Iran has been sponsoring enemies of Israel for decades (Hezbollah and Hamas). While there might have been this 2k years of peaceful cooperation, that no longer exists. And it sure looks to me like Iran is to blame.

Remove that US umbrella, let Yisraël feel fear for a moment, let us think who else might help us.

Even in such a scenario, why in the world would they turn to Iran? Saudi Arabia (and perhaps Turkey and Egypt) still provides the better deal at present. That may include eventual nuclear weapon technology transfer, should (or rather when) Iran finally succeed at developing viable nuclear weapons.

I tire of how many decades of bad behavior on the part of Iran is excused merely because they got treated bad way back when. Iran needs to change.