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u/kixiron · 1 pointr/history

The books of Michael Axworthy and James Buchan's Days of God. :)

u/wederty6h6 · 1 pointr/pics

>This all happened because an Anglo-American alliance crushed Iranian efforts to self-govern and installed a puppet who would serve the interests of international petrochemical companies.

not even slightly what happened. that's not even close. lot's of people think they know what happened, but very few ever bothered to read a book or two about it.

anglo-persian oil never got back in to iran. they were done the moment it happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Persian_Oil_Company
and the Shah is the one who led the oil embargo in the 1970s that lead to massive stagflation in the 1970s and 1980s.

the u.s. was involved in the coup, ran the coup actually, the brits were gone at that point, and basically only through money, about $1 million dollars, the rest was all popular Iranian support for the shah, and the u.s. and the CIA did it exclusively because of fear of the communist element (the Tudeh party that the shah had banned and Mosaddegh was courting) that was part of national front.

and the Shah was the modernizing element in all events. he and his father were the ones who pushed the reforms that gave women those rights in all events. not some grass routes iranian liberalism. his father went into the mosques and whipped the imams a one point. and then the shah pushed through the right for women to vote and other reforms in the 50s and 60s and 70s.

you have it both ways. that it us our fault for the shah, the modernizer in a 7th century world, and the backlash. it's retarded. and yall should read a book.

these are three diffrenet ones, all with varying viewpoints

https://www.amazon.com/Iranian-Revolution-Islamic-Reshaped-Middle/dp/1500657646/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1484888299&sr=8-1&keywords=iranian+revolution

https://www.amazon.com/All-Shahs-Men-American-Middle/dp/047018549X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1484888299&sr=8-2&keywords=iranian+revolution

https://www.amazon.com/Days-God-Revolution-Iran-Consequences/dp/1416597778/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1484888299&sr=8-3&keywords=iranian+revolution