Iran, 1941-1953: Tudeh, Mosaddegh, Oil, and the CIA-MI6 Coup
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Tudor and Azerbaijan
In 1945, the Soviet Union announced their support for groups fighting for autonomy or secession in Azerbaijan and Kurdistan. Ehsalat Abadi famously wrote an article calling for if we're going to give a concession to the British, then one should also consider giving a concession to Russia. This basically creates a huge amount of outcry, not only amongst his membership, but obviously within broader Iranian society. But even that sort of that example, and actually what was the policies carried out by the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan were extremely extremely, I think, important and extremely progressive in many ways.
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