Comment by regularization

And what happened before then? Iran had a secular prime minister, Mossadegh, but the UK and US supported, among others, conservative clerics to overthrow that elected government to put in a dictatorship.

Then in the 1970s the CIA provided SAVAK with the names of secular left opposition to arrest and execute.

So spare me talk about foreigners supporting religious fanatics, the western establishment did so for decades.

I for one don't want my tax dollars used to bomb schools in Iran.