What would happen if the failed coup against Mossadegh in 1953 had succeeded?
I read one novel where an anti-Semitic cleric seized control of Iran, but it was also kind of poorly written as it had an obscure actor as a popular President and a right wing union buster as PM of Britain(where some Indian guy is threatened with death by the Iranian dictator).Yeah, we can do the standard dystopian ATL: a secret police, economic reforms which benefit a big enough of a middle class while keeping the poor still poor, accumulating corruption over the years, opposition which is more religious than it otherwise would have been, etc, etc.
But we've done this kind of timeline so many times, let's do something new for crying out loud! Pleeaase!!!!![]()
I think it was Salman Rushdie.some Indian guy is threatened with death by the Iranian dictator
yes, although he has critiqued Islam, few people have caredI think it was Salman Rushdie.
He is a Nobel Prize for Literature winner, so some people do bring up his criticisms of Islam (and Hindutva) sometimes, but I doubt there would be a "fatwa" against him, like in that novel you described.yes, although he has critiqued Islam, few people have cared
It's like a movie screenplay. The audience is on your side. They want the movie to work. They will accept one, maybe two coincidences, as long as it's towards the beginning and the story builds from there.I read one novel where an anti-Semitic cleric seized control of Iran, but it was also kind of poorly written as it had an obscure actor as a popular President and a right wing union buster as PM of Britain(where some Indian guy is threatened with death by the Iranian dictator).
Iranian oil freighters go to Indian ports all the time.Iran under Mossadegh was not exactly always pro-Soviet. Especially when Tudeh, the Iranian Communists, wanted to substantially lessen influence of the Shi'a mullahs in Qom and Mashad, which was a very unpopular move given the historical religious influence of both cities. Mossadegh ended up not so much siding with Tudeh, which made Iran a lot less Leftist than it seemed on the surface. That's why today the Republic of Iran is technically a secular government, though the influence Shi'a Islam is strong, and Zoroastrianism is making a comeback.
Indeed, Mossadegh's reforms of the late 1950's set the stage for Iran to become an economic superpower of the region. In 2017, Iran now exports more crude oil than Saudi Arabia (mostly because tanker operators LOVE not having to traverse the Persian Gulf just to reach oil terminals), massively exports natural gas through pipelines to Pakistan and India (that's why India will soon shut down its last coal-fired power plant just outside Kolkata, now that a new natural gas-fired power plant just started operations there).
I read one novel where an anti-Semitic cleric seized control of Iran, but it was also kind of poorly written as it had an obscure actor as a popular President and a right wing union buster as PM of Britain(where some Indian guy is threatened with death by the Iranian dictator).