🇮🇷The Secret of the 1979 Iranian Revolution – Swiss Policy Research
Why the 1979 Iranian revolution was supported by the United States.
The 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran is often presented as an anti-American and anti-Western revolution. In reality, the 1979 revolution was supported and facilitated by the United States – a fact neither supporters nor opponents of the current Islamic Republic of Iran like to talk about.
Although denied for decades, it is now widely known that in 1953, the United States and Britain overthrew the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh, and re-installed Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as monarch (#shah) or dictatorial governor.
This early “regime change”, code-named Operation Ajax, was driven by Anglo-American oil interests – Mosaddegh planned to nationalize the Iranian oil industry – as well as by an early Cold War fear of increasing Communist influence on politics in #Iran (as in some Western European countries).
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Why the 1979 Iranian revolution was supported by the United States.
The 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran is often presented as an anti-American and anti-Western revolution. In reality, the 1979 revolution was supported and facilitated by the United States – a fact neither supporters nor opponents of the current Islamic Republic of Iran like to talk about.
Although denied for decades, it is now widely known that in 1953, the United States and Britain overthrew the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh, and re-installed Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as monarch (#shah) or dictatorial governor.
This early “regime change”, code-named Operation Ajax, was driven by Anglo-American oil interests – Mosaddegh planned to nationalize the Iranian oil industry – as well as by an early Cold War fear of increasing Communist influence on politics in #Iran (as in some Western European countries).
@swprs