I think it we cannot overemphasize the legacy and the memory of the 1953 coup. The first several months after the fall of the shah there is real worry about another coup this is what leads in part to students islamis students who are calling themselves the students in the line of the m-m-m to occupy the american embassy in november of 1979. I think it's also the memory of 53 is important in the sense that at the very end at thevery end um the shah appoints back to back to yarghon but they are sort of overwhelmed by the liberal muslim faction under bazarghon which is not in the mood
Featuring Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the third episode in our four-part series. We pick up in the wake of the US-British 1953 coup against Mossadegh, assess the Shah's repression and attempts to manufacture consent through passive revolution, and then close by laying out the 1979 Islamic Revolution in all of its wild complexity.
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