[mass55th]

"But YOU failed to mention that the Shah was going to nationalize the oil industry in 1979 when the Consortium Agreement of 1954, that he had negotiated which had actually increased Iran’s share of the profits, was set to expire."

Are you insinuating that the 1979 coup occurred because the Shah was planning on nationalizing Iran's oil business, as P.M. Mosaddegh was doing in the early 50's?

[SoCal Pubbie]

Not at all. Rather, the coup that deposed the shah was a result of the communists and Islamists teaming up to sow discord. Then Jimmy Carter pulled the rug out from under Pahlavi. Of course the mullahs killed off the Tudeh Party.

If oil had anything to do with it the revolution never would have happened.