Iran, 1941-1953: Tudeh, Mosaddegh, Oil, and the CIA-MI6 Coup
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There was a widespread understanding among the Iranian polity that a coup or get orchestrated primarily by the Americans had happened it's not, it wasn't a secret to the ryan's. There were how you viewed the event internally in Iran was split along essentially political lines right so if you were a royalist you would sort of minimize American or British involvement. The basic parameters of the coup were well understood, very, very early on, I mean virtually immediately. They there's already this long standing kind of infiltration into important institutions and also into the cultural milieu of British and later American like forms of thinking.
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