Considering Mossadegh completely rejected any “Soviet security zone” in Northern Iran the Soviet threat was overblown, and conceived by Churchill to convince Eisenhower to take action, after Truman refused.
Standard Marxist line: the Red Scare boogeyman was imagined.
So a debate over whats true....so I will.start with something simple....looking at a map and the time
Its the early 1950’s and Iran sits directely on the USSR border ....like a Poland.....and usually the USSR in the 1950’s controls every country on its border as a puppet state...the USSR work very hard for that...
And Iran just happen to be beween the USSR and the Persian Gulf a very strategic point that gives acces out to the open sea.
And Iran is oil rich...and Iran in the 1950’s is in chaos
Now i can not say what the truth is....
But unless the 1950s Russians are geopolitical idiots they have a major hard on for control.of Iran as a buffer state.( like all of Eastern Europe that time)
so to think the USSR threat is overblown .. really has no credibility....
Simple 1950’s geopolitics tell you it’s not good to be a country on the USSR’s border..... let alone a country on the USSR border between it in the open sea..and have oil..and be in disarray.
But im to buy the USSR.is a non factor in this story
it’s never good to be a border state between the East (the USSR) and the West
it gives me an idea of both sides. of the play going on so to say Russians weren’t involved is complete fantasy
1950’s Iran was not in a postion to not be someone’s puppet