The only democratically elected leader in Iranian history, Mohammad Mosedegh, was deposed by the US/CIA in 1953 to be replaced with the deposed Shah to allow for more friendly trade agreements for British Petroleum after Mosedegh nationalized their oil industry.
The US govt has been doing the same thing throughout the world for over 100 years at this point. It’s a foundational principle, at this point, that the US always intervenes whenever corporate interests are involved.
It was never about economic models, or people controlling their fates through governmental organization. The 1953 overthrow created the blowback of 1978/9 in the Islamic Uprising reforming the power in Tehran to the Ayatollah. Im being concise on purpose.
The only democratically elected leader in Iranian history, Mohammad Mosedegh, was deposed by the US/CIA in 1953 to be replaced with the deposed Shah to allow for more friendly trade agreements for British Petroleum after Mosedegh nationalized their oil industry.
The US govt has been doing the same thing throughout the world for over 100 years at this point. It’s a foundational principle, at this point, that the US always intervenes whenever corporate interests are involved.
It was never about economic models, or people controlling their fates through governmental organization. The 1953 overthrow created the blowback of 1978/9 in the Islamic Uprising reforming the power in Tehran to the Ayatollah. Im being concise on purpose.