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by colechristensen 2 days ago
Their stranglehold on power is in no small way influenced by having an enemy.

America bringing destruction and failing to bring freedom from their current tyranny has doubtfully bought us many more friends in Iran.

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Doubtful, wishful thinking, America should’ve left well enough alone in 1953. We got rid of a president who was elected, who wanted to nationalize the oil industry within Iran, and when the puppet was installed the Shah he kept it nationalized anyway and for America, the Middle East became a quagmire and still is billions wasted.

Too bad the Pan America highway or a Pan-American Railway is but a dream the Chinese probably will get that high speed rail all the way to Europe once Russia and the Ukraine stop fighting, I might add if it wasn’t for the war. There’s a good possibility. It would already be done by now.

Mosaddegh was appointed by the Shah and Iran was very far from a functioning democracy with fair elections in 1953.
There was a lot more going on in Iran than just American meddling. They were modernizing very fast and there became a huge class divide between the urban modern upper middle class and the very traditional rural populations.