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The elected government nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil company, which controlled most of Iran’s oil production. The British pushed the US to go in on a coup. Truman refused, but Eisenhower agreed. The deal was US oil companies would get a share of the oil business.

Before that, there was a 1941 Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, because they thought the Nazis had too much influence over the Iranian government.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

there was a 1941 Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, because they thought the Nazis had too much influence over the Iranian government.

The last Shah's father was a moron who made several bad decisions while in power, to include an alliance with Germany during WW2.