Iran, 1941-1953: Tudeh, Mosaddegh, Oil, and the CIA-MI6 Coup
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Mossad Dec's Dismissal
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.
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