The first major bloodletting of the Bahai in Iran was in 1955 - two years after the US and UK conspired to overthrow Iran&#x27;s secular parliament and install the Shah, with the backing of the ayatollahs.  In 1955, the Shah and his strong supporter, Ayatollah Falsafi, conspired in an anti-Bahai campaign which led to riots in Iran, Bahai deaths etc.<p>It&#x27;s not surprising to me at all to see Americans overthrow a secular democracy, install an ayatollah-back dictator who less than two years later starts a bloody campaign against the Bahai...<p>...and then to see those same Americans shaking their heads in moral outrage how the Iranian ayatollahs (who they empowered) are persecuting the Bahai in the modern day.