Iran, 1941-1953: Tudeh, Mosaddegh, Oil, and the CIA-MI6 Coup
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Is the Shah's Move to Outlaw Tudor?
The Shah is very much excited about the project. He was who sees it as a major threat to him because he's not interested in actually level this sort of degree of popular mobilization and being very much, you know, directed with a clear so grounded in a clear socialist vision. I mean, that's antithetical to everything he obviously represents and what he thinks is his birthright. The two days position on the coup which is kind of in many ways, the nail in the coffin. It also provides the context in which the two day is finally kind of decapitated internally,. And then loses this kind of mass politics element, which have been its lifeblood in the 40s.
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