Iran, 1941-1953: Tudeh, Mosaddegh, Oil, and the CIA-MI6 Coup
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Mossad Dev Is a National Hero
Mossad dev becomes this extraordinary figure who is seen as un corruptible, unlike so many other members of Iranian political establishment. Once he takes the kind of more broadly nationalizing posture claims the mantle of wanting to nationalize Iran's oil,. There's just an enormous amount of emotional sort of connection to that project by a broad base of Iranian, Iranian. And it's because he is seen as being the most trenchant anti colonial and incorruptible kind of anti colonial nationalist of the 20th century.
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