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Given the current events, I thought it be a good time to bring up Iran. A lot of you might know what happened in the early 1950s. In 1950, Iran's first Democratically elected prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh nationalized the assets of the Anglo Iranian Oil Company. Britain was infuriated by this and blockaded Iran's oil industry. There were attempts at negotiation. At one point, Mossadegh offered a 50-50 profit sharing plan with the British and the Truman administration urged London to take the offer, they refused. In 1953, the CIA staged a coup, removed Mossadegh and installed the Shah as a dictator. So what if the British took the 50-50 compromise? Would the CIA have still done the coup once the more conservative Eisenhower administration took over? Would Iran be a thriving and free country today or would it be a dysfunctional petrostate?
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