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cliffside

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5. Thanks for posting this video ...

Reply to Ellipsis (Reply #3)

Sat Sep 27, 2025, 11:14 PM

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I did not know of this purge at the time, our goverment did though. We continued to do business with them and sold them items used against certain populations.

Maybe we should not have helped the British with the 1953 Iranian coup.

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Thanks for posting this video ... cliffside Yesterday #5

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