Despite the current pop-history narrative, this guy was actually a massive retard and a disgraceful opportunist. Iran left under a western friendly regime would probably be one of the most advanced nations on earth, similar to South Korea or Japan. Like most leftists he lacked long term strategic vision and believed that rash government actions would create immediate prosperity, without regard for second and third order effects.
>>18418035Thank you.He wasn't even a leftist, he was just a Qajat butthurt that the Pahlavi had taken over his family who turned to leftism populism to get revenge (Marjane Satrapi was the same)
>>18418035>>18418103Also, the clergy who currently run Iran originally supported the coup against him and only turned against the shah because his secular policies stripped them of their feudal estates. They never opposed the shah for his authoritarianism but rather for his secularism, otherwise they wouldn't have purged more leftists in a single year than fucking Pinochet did during his entire 17-year long rule over Chile.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_executions_of_Iranian_political_prisoners
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>>18418103Ahh that's right. I had forgotten that the dude's mother was a literal princess. His decision to nationalize their oil production and commandeer all of the western infrastructure is what I would consider the hinge point of modern Iranian history.
>>18418357Yeah turns out that when you unilaterally reneg on contracts and steal from people that it pisses people off and leads to consequences. To this day commies are still crying that they don't get free reign to do whatever the fuck they want to whoever they want lol.
>>18418035>>18418855>>18418864You know Nasser in Egypt did the same thing with the Suez Canal successfully 2 years later and the Saudis threatened to nationalize Saudi Aramco in 1950 and eventually did it in 1973 to enforce the Arab oil embargo right
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>>18418929Different circumstances for each of those. Egypt was a U.S. ally. The U.S. was also busy in Vietnam in 1973. Both Saudi and Egypt had stronger positions in those situations than Iran did under Mossadegh. They played their cards well and Mossadegh did not. Thus my assertion that he was a massive retard.
