Iran, 1941-1953: Tudeh, Mosaddegh, Oil, and the CIA-MI6 Coup
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Maliki Is a Marxist and a Third Worldist Ethos
The idea of the military intelligence and broader intelligence force being specifically concerning itself with anti communism is as much longer standing in 20th century Iran. The two day party is so much bigger than the post split groups that the Maliki founds I want to flag something because there tends to be this kind of understanding of the post period as a time when the repressive apparatus of the Path of the government sort of dramatically expands. And for the this moment where the repressive arm of the state expands in the post coup moment it's already expanding in the night.
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