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One of the larger American foreign policy mistakes (probably top five, post-war) was in overthrowing the stable, democratic, and secular government of Iran for a military dictatorship.

We all know how that wound up.

So, what if Eisenhower (like Truman before him) refuses to go along with the British coup plan? (Alternatively the Iranians broker a nationalization deal with the oil companies and the crisis gets averted.)
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