kvetch
Devout UK Hindu-Jew
because Mossadegh was a conservative, that's whyYup, he was a Socialist and the US and the West could not take the chance with the Cold War raging back then. Besides how do you know those elections were "fair" and Mossadegh wasn't a Communist plant?I agree that he was better than Khomeini et al - but then perhaps he should not have helped bring them to power.
The only person who can take any responsibility for the fall of the Shah - is the Shah. He did it all to himself - as so many despots do.
Of course it was the US that removed the elected government and installed the Shah in 1953.
not a left wing cell or bone in his body
an aristocrat, a feudal landowner, I think.............look him up
all he asked BP ...then it was the Iran Petroleum Co.for .....very politely.....was the same level of royalties that Saudi was getting from Aramco, the USA Oil Co....50%
when he was refused viciously, it all escalated
if BP had been human and not the greedy buggers we know them to be, Iran could be a conservative democracy to this day
and the heirs to a great civilisation of persia which freed the jews from babylon and put israel back on the map, not threatening to wipe it off the bloody map!!