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Iran, 1941-1953: Tudeh, Mosaddegh, Oil, and the CIA-MI6 Coup

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The National Front in Iran

The umbrella nature of the national front I think that's super important and ranging from the Iran party to people like Ayatollah Khashani who was very much a rabble rouser. He cultivated, you know, various sort of interests and he actually he was for a time seen as the patron of an important group, islamis group by the name of the Fadayana Islam. And this is obviously something that was going around like assassinating alleged secret pajas. Yeah, I mean it was attacking. It was assassinating politicians.

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