Mossad Dec's Dismissal

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The most important aspect of it I think is actually the army, of course, as you would expect. There's this intelligence network, very pro British anglophile intelligence that we've got the Rashid young brothers. But also there's like a coalition of actually social forces at the time that are supporting kind of this push by first and foremost byby the military. They're not directly overthrowing the colonial powers on actually imperial powers on over everything but they're very much reliant on cultivating pushing in logistically all manner of ways.

Featuring Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the second episode in our four-part series. We begin in 1941 with the British-Soviet occupation of Iran, the ouster of Reza Shah and his replacement by his son, Mohammad Reza Shah. We continue with the rise of the Tudeh communist party, the nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, Mohammad Mosaddegh's National Party coming to power, and the 1953 US-British coup that overthrew Mosaddegh and reinstalled Mohammad Reza Shah as dictator. His brutal reign continued until the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which is where we will pick up in episode three. Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out The Sinking Middle Class by David Roediger haymarketbooks.org/books/1879-the-sinking-middle-class