iran had a democratically elected government destroyed by WarParty meddling..
"...The
1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in
Iran as the
28 Mordad coup d'état (
Persian: کودتای ۲۸ مرداد), was the U.S.- and British-instigated, Iranian army-led
overthrow of the elected
Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favor of strengthening the monarchical rule of the
shah,
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, on 19 August 1953, with one of the significant objectives being to protect British oil interests in Iran.
[5][6] It was
aided by the United States (under the name
TP-AJAX (Tudeh Party) Project[7] or
Operation Ajax) and the United Kingdom (under the name
Operation Boot).
[8][9][10][11]
Mosaddegh had sought to
audit the documents of the
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), a British corporation (now part of
BP), to verify that AIOC was paying the contracted royalties to Iran, and to limit the company's control over Iranian
oil reserves.
[12] Upon the AIOC's refusal to cooperate with the Iranian government, the parliament (
Majlis) voted to
nationalize Iran's oil industry and to expel foreign corporate representatives from the country.
[13][14][15] After this vote, Britain instigated a worldwide boycott of Iranian oil to pressure Iran economically.
[16] Initially, Britain mobilized its military to seize control of the British-built
Abadan oil refinery, then the world's largest, but Prime Minister
Clement Attlee (in power until 1951) opted instead to tighten the economic boycott
[17] while using Iranian agents to undermine Mosaddegh's government.
[18]: 3 Judging Mosaddegh to be unamenable and fearing the growing influence of the
communist Tudeh, UK prime minister
Winston Churchill and the
Eisenhower administration decided in early 1953 to overthrow Iran's government. The preceding
Truman administration had opposed a coup, fearing the precedent that
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) involvement would set,
[18]: 3 and the U.S. government had been considering unilateral action (without UK support) to assist the Mosaddegh government as late as 1952.
[19][20][21] British intelligence officials' conclusions and the UK government's solicitations to the US were instrumental in initiating and planning the coup.
Following the coup, a government under General
Fazlollah Zahedi was formed which allowed
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the
shah of Iran (
Persian for 'king'),
[22] to rule more firmly as
monarch. He relied heavily on United States support to hold on to power.
[13][14][15][23] According to the CIA's declassified documents and records, some of the most feared mobsters in
Tehran were hired by the CIA to stage pro-shah riots on 19 August.
[5] Other men paid by the CIA were brought into Tehran in buses and trucks and took over the streets of the city.
[24] Between 200
[3] and 300
[4] people were killed because of the conflict. Mosaddegh was arrested, tried and convicted of treason by the Shah's military court. On 21 December 1953, he was sentenced to three years in jail, then placed under house arrest for the remainder of his life.
[25]: 280
[26][27] Other Mosaddegh supporters were imprisoned, and several received the death penalty.
[15] The coup resulted in the reinstatement of the Shah's authority, and he continued to rule Iran for the next 26 years as a pro-Western monarch
[14][15] until he was overthrown in the
Iranian Revolution in 1979.
[14][15][18][28]
en.wikipedia.org
considering the history, and the WarParty backing one Saddam Hussein esquire ( remember him ) to destroy
the revolution, it is a wonder the iranians are so restrained
Comrade Stalin
Teheran
