john r stanton

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john r stanton @dcbigjohn

Although initially supportive of Mossadegh and his democratization goals, the US decided to play funny games, seeing a chance to take the oil concessions for ourselves. So, using the lessons we’d learned the overthrow of the Guatemalan govt, the CIA in 1953 ... — PolitiTweet.org

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The Shah of Iran, who was only the second of his line to rule there, worries (likely legitimately) that the NF would ultimately take his power, despite hurt rhetoric that they not interested in that necessarily. He resisted them, but eventually mossadegh because PM — PolitiTweet.org

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Overthrew Mossadegh’s govt. we, of course, ended up controlling Iran’s oil resources. And yet even after that, dissidents and opponents of the shah still looked to our model as a way forward for their country. Indeed, even to this very day, despite decades of interference ... — PolitiTweet.org

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