The CIA installed the Shah of Iran after the elected government started talking about nationalizing the oil industry. The Shah wanted Western investment so he modernized parts of society, but ruthlessly repressed all political opponents.
So, the USA ended up creating an enemy by denying people their right to be heard.
The CIA installed the Shah of Iran after the elected government started talking about nationalizing the oil industry.
I feel the need to point out that nationalizing the oil industry wasn't the catalyst for CIA involvement (just the catalyst for British involvement); we actually initially refused the British on anti-colonial grounds, for similar reasons as to why we got involved in the Suez Canal Crisis against Britain, France, and Israel. The US intelligence services didn't get involved with the overthrow of Mossadegh until (mostly unfounded) fears that the Tudeh Party would replace him were stoked.
But yeah, nitpicking motivations aside, engineering the coup was not the US's finest moment
I love these "they took our hot babes!" posts about Iran
A lot of them moved to LA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Iranian_Americans_in_Los_Angeles
Here I thought it was 'oppressive theocracies are not eternally rooted in the nations they reside in no matter how hard they try to project otherwise'.
fuck the shah
I'm confused. The internet has taught me that all Iranian women were naked before the islamic revolution.
They surely do love posting what appears to be women in their 20s having a good time.
I guess the goal is to show that it aint got to be the way it is now.
Weird lie to tell
It was a common joke a few years ago. But I guess in internet years that's already an eternity.
