today in "let's nationalize EVERY Oil & Gas company!": March 15, 1951, Iranian oil industry is nationalized by the pro-working class Mosaddegh government.
2 years later, the anti-working class U.S. & British capitalists funded a violent military coup d'état & "interfered in another country's elections" by overthrowing & arresting Mosaddegh until he died still in custody in 1967.
Following the election of nationalist Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh as prime minister, the government nationalized the oil. The British and the U.S. promptly imposed sanctions on Iran. But Mosaddegh survived the crisis and shut down the British Embassy. Then, in the largest operation of its kind to date, through operation Ajax, the CIA overthrew Mosaddegh and installed the Shah as an absolute monarch.
From 1953 to the 1979 revolution, the Shah’s government ruthlessly repressed all opposition forces, leftists, nationalists and Islamists. The Shah’s dreaded secret service, the SAVAK, trained and equipped by the CIA and the Israeli Mossad, routinely used torture and execution of political activists. Iran was a loyal client state for the U.S.
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March 15, 1951, Iran's oil nationalized by Mosaddegh.
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