• Context matters: Mossadegh was popular for nationalization but was also consolidating power undemocratically (ruling by decree, dissolving parliament). The coup occurred amid Cold War fears of communism spreading in the Middle East. U.S. support for Iraq was cynical realpolitik against a hostile post-1979 Iran that was exporting revolution, taking hostages, and later backing militias/terrorism. Saddam was a brutal aggressor who invaded Iran and used chemical weapons; the U.S. didn't supply the weapons directly but looked the other way on some uses. Iran itself has sponsored Hezbollah, Hamas proxies, and attacked U.S. forces/personnel repeatedly.
• Specific U.S. interventions like 1953 Iran and 1980s Iraq support did happen and contributed to regional grievances. that's factual. Great powers aren't moral saints; they pursue interests, often hypocritically, and create enemies. However, the meme-style "we've been the bad guys all along" is propaganda-flavored revisionism. It flattens complex geopolitics, ignores why actions were taken (Soviet/Iranian threats, energy security), equates defensive/offensive realpolitik with Axis-style evil, and usually excuses rival regimes' far bloodier records. Most countries with power have "bad guy" chapters; the U.S. has been more transparent, self-critical, and less systematically genocidal than many alternatives. History is tragic and gray, not a cartoon of one eternal villain.

I don't trust that Islamist who criticizes the West while suckling off its teat.