Iran, 1941-1953: Tudeh, Mosaddegh, Oil, and the CIA-MI6 Coup
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The British Response to Iran's Nuclear Blockade
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
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