Iran, 1941-1953: Tudeh, Mosaddegh, Oil, and the CIA-MI6 Coup
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The Sinking Middle Class is a political history of debt, misery, and the drift to the right by David Rodegger. Another world won't be built by pollsters or slick election strategies aimed at saving the middle class. We have to grow a movement. This episode begins in 1941, with the two World War allies and longtime imperial powers in Iran, Britain and the Soviet Union occupying the country. That allied occupation deposed Reza Shah and replaced him with his son, Muhammad Reza Shah,. The same repressive Shah would seize total control after the US and British orchestrated coup in 1953.
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