The British Response to Iran's Nuclear Blockade

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The British move to impose like a naval blockade on Iran and actually also importantly I need to mention under the government at first the British actually drop a plan called Operation Bucaneer. This is drawn up under the labor government that builds the modern welfare state in Britain Exactly. They managed to, you know, we could have welfare home imperialism abroad. And with the British it's undoubtedly oil. It's immediately their economic interests. The UK had a long established networks led by kind of eccentric figures including Robin Zayner who was an expert of ancient religions and Hinduism all sorts of things. So they are very much organized from the get go, are trying to overturn this Mossad decoso

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