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smugmalast Thursday at 3:17 PM4 repliesview on HN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%2527%C3%A9...

A key motive was to protect British oil interests in Iran after Mossadegh nationalized and refused to concede to western oil demands.


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ch4s3last Thursday at 4:07 PM

This is sort of a bad and inaccurate summary of a much more complicated situation. Mossadegh was trying to dissolve parliament and was in conflict with the Shah before the British got involved. The Shah was already planning to try by constitutional means (which he had legal power to do) to remove Mossadegh. Would he have done it without British and US backing, is a debate for historians.

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stickfigurelast Thursday at 3:47 PM

Yeah that was bad but you're skipping another revolution and more than 70 years of history. There's always some previous war.

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mc32last Thursday at 5:07 PM

Whatever happened due to the British, it’s still fact they Iran was doing pretty well before the current revolution. I don’t think anyone would argue the population at large are better off today than they were under the previous regime.

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Der_Einzigelast Thursday at 4:30 PM

Nationalizing resources simply gives the capitalist west a legitimate casus beli to “liberate” all the assets that were stolen.

Venezuela is about to be turned into another Vietnam. Iran is next. I remember invading them in a mission in BF3. The USA itches to implement what its media anticipated.

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