[Alberta's Child]

Iranians from that era will tell you that he wrested control of the nation's oil assets from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) -- a construct of post-WW2 British colonialism.

In either case, there was absolutely no reason for the U.S. government to basically help serve as the guarantor of British Petroleum's investments in the Middle East.

[FreeKeys]

In either case, there was absolutely no reason for the U.S. government to basically help serve as the guarantor of British Petroleum's investments in the Middle East.

That makes sense. But you don't see ANY truth to the suggestion that Iran had become our strongest ally in the Muslim world? Or that Iran was showing more modernity than the rest of the Muslim world? At all? Do you think past mistakes, Ike's or whoever's, absolves Carter of his?

[odds]

"Iranians from that era will tell you that he wrested control of the nation's oil assets from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) -- a construct of post-WW2 British colonialism. In either case, there was absolutely no reason for the U.S. government to basically help serve as the guarantor of British Petroleum's investments in the Middle East."

Have these Iranians also mentioned the other reason(s) why the CIA was ordered to intervene ?