Joy Reid claims US is only ‘marginally better’ than Iran

Former MSNBC talk show host Joy Reid made some controversial comments on a recent podcast in which she claimed that the United States was only “marginally better” than Iran. Reid made the comments last Wednesday on the One54 podcast, hosted by former NFL player Akbar Gbajabiamila and the comedian Godfrey.

While discussing current events, and specifically the military conflict with Iran, Reid said that Iranians were justified in disliking the United States due to the 1953 coup in which Iran’s Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown, an effort that Great Britain and the U.S. aided. Later, she claimed that Iran’s regime and the U.S. government had many similarities. She emphasized that the U.S. “regime” was “not good.”