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It's The Blowback, Stupid!
The 1953 coup is widely seen as having set the conditions for the 1979 Islamic Revolution. It is a consequence the US and Iran are still dealing with today.

On the verge of abandoning his seven-year exploration for oil in Iran, British socialite William Knox D’Arcy struck black gold in 1908. D’Arcy’s fortuitous find meant incredible wealth for the British government, but set off the series of cataclysmic events over the next century that are at the core of why the United States is on the brink of invading Iran today.

New Wave Coffee
From Adbusters #76, MAR-APR 2008

Photo: Marcus Jolly

For centuries, coffeehouses have been the epicenters of counter-culture. Their caffeinated brews served as a refuge for radicals and fueled debates about politics, culture and arts. Capitalizing on this historical significance, Starbucks crashed the scene in the 1990s with an aggressive expansionist agenda. It rapidly flooded the market, replacing the social and intellectual dynamism of coffee shop culture with a top-down illusion of community.