Iran had a democracy. They had a parliament and a Prime Minister separate from the Shah, and only the parliament could dismiss or replace the P.M.  who was Time's Man of the Year (Mohammad Mossadegh) in 1951 (not Truman, not Eisenhower, not Churchill).  He nationalized the British oil company which his people loved (of course I don't approve of that but Britian did go to war against Iran in 1941 and controlled them, so I think they had a right to fight back, Iran honored that oil agreement for 40 years they weren't just corrupt thieves or something).  The CIA and SIS toppled that, turning the country into a dictatorship.  Is that spreading democracy?  Is it?  It became "Westernized" under a dictatorship and growing resentment lead to the 1979 Islamic Revolution that made Iran the theocratic state of little freedom that it is today.

Did you know Iranians loved America before 1953?  They thought it was the best most perfect country. 

 Good to know some history… sounds all too familiar. 

 America is like that super hot but backstabby frenemy... 

 Now you wonder what fuckery the CIA is up to in America itself. 

 "Spreading democracy" is propaganda, everyone knows that. 

It's the US Empire universal mission. All empires must have one. The US go around to overthrow bad dictators that are forcing their good people to behave bad or dumb, if not killing them.  That's the story. No one believes it and still it's the one that will always be told. Empires just can't help themselves. 

The real reasons are always gepolitical. The CIA/SIS move was in the context of Cold War. 

It did kind of backfire? Yes. People make mistakes all the time.  

 To be very clear: when i say "nobody believe that"... technically is the opposite 😉 

Nobody that can actually think, knows history (the one that did not start with the last current thing... actual History), can see behind the curtains of obvious rhetorical talks... 

Which technically is basically nobody. Most of the rest do not have the interest, the tools, access to information or, well, the will and reasoning capabilities. 

So in a sense the "spreading democracy" narration / mission is a tool. In a sense it actually is what moves the US. It's made up? Yes. It's the deep real reason? No. Still it has impact or US would have not become what it is. No Empire can without an actual universal mission.