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To: mass55th

WRONG!

The roots of the disastrous 1979 revolution go back far beyond Mosaddegh’s attempted coup (thats what is was) are found decades before. The 1906 constitutional revolt in 1906 leading to the Pahlavi Dynasty in 1925, and the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 which spurred the Islamists and communists to move against Pahlavi.

Reza Shah Pahlavi admired Ataturk and wanted to modernize and secularize his nation too. Land reforms, removing mandatory veils and other moves toward female equality were too much for the mullahs. Giving women the right to vote in 1962 was probably the last straw.


51 posted on 03/14/2026 1:30:03 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: SoCal Pubbie
You've failed to even allude to Britain's involvement in the Iranian oil business prior to WWI, and their continued efforts to maintain control of that same business, as having a role in what has happened in Iran over the years. Greed, money and control of oil flow have been there from the beginning.

Britain had been involved in the oil business in Iran since 1901, when William Knox D'Arcy, a millionaire London socialite negotiated a 60 year oil concession with Mozaffar al-Din Shah Qajar who was the Shah of Iran from 1896 to 1907. Britain held the majority of the shares of the oil business in Iran, in which Iran received very little money in return. The fact that Britain got America to do their dirty work for them in 1953, and through a coup, forced out a democratically elected Prime Minister just to keep control of the oil business, certainly played a role in what has gone on in Iran since then.

Britain and Russia invaded Iran during WWII to protect Britain's oil control, because they feared the Shah, who had already proclaimed Iran's neutrality, was getting too friendly with the Germans. The Brits didn't give a crap about the country. They just didn't want Hitler getting his hands on their oil business. If the morons leading Britain, and France had honored the agreement they had made with Russia to protect Czechoslovakia, and taken out Hitler and his underwhelming army at the time, instead of going to Munich, without even inviting Russia to the meeting, and handing Hitler that country, there may have never been a WWII.

79 posted on 03/14/2026 2:42:38 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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