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Max Amini alleges the West helped install Khomeini after deposing the Shah
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"the last 47 years there is a whole different ideology inserted into this culture and we believe it's designed by the west. They came and took Humeini and they put him in Iran and they said this is what's going to hold back the growth of this civilization. >> You think the west put Humeini in power? >> Yes. Carter >> put Humeini power? >> Yes."
Comedian Max Amini tells Bill Maher he believes Iran’s 1979 revolution was engineered with Western backing, alleging US president Jimmy Carter, alongside European allies, helped remove the Shah and bring Ayatollah Khomeini to power. Maher challenges the premise, noting the Shah was viewed as aligned with the West, but Amini repeats the claim and argues the Shah had become ‘too threatening’ on oil pricing and independence.
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