Facts About Iran That Most People Don’t Know

Published on November 2, 2019
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Refugees

Iran is proud to say that it has more than 1,000,000 foreign refugees which is actually the most of any country worldwide. The country came under fire for using the Afghan and Kurdish refugees as means of expanding their workforce for minimum wages.

Refugees

Refugees

Operation Ajax

America and Iran once were actually good friends, but the mistrust most Iranians feel could be traced back to 1953. The CIA was part of a secret operation called “Operation Ajax” which aimed to overthrow Prime Minister Masaddegh’s democratically elected government. USA would get 40% of Iran’s oil industry from Iran’s Shah… until the plan was blown out of the water.

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Operation Ajax

Operation Ajax