Word: mossadegh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That kind of cooperative relationship wouldn't be bad if it weren't for the nature of Iran's government and educational system. Iran's Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, came to power in 1953 in the wake of a CIA-sponsored coup: the American government ousted Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh because of his reforms in tax distribution, nationalization of the oil industry, and friendly stance toward the Soviet Union. The CIA installed the Shah as head of state because he was a staunch supporter of the American government...
...first years on the throne, the Shah was generally considered a figurehead monarch who cared more for fast cars, fancy living and pretty women than for the tasks of kingship. That impression was reinforced by his failure to deal firmly with Premier Mossadegh during the 1950s, and by his ineffectual early struggles with the landowning "thousand families" who largely controlled his country. In 1950 he attempted unsuccessfully to force them to hand over their land to their peasants; the Shah set an example by deeding 450,000 acres of crown property to the 42,000 farmers who worked the royal...
...Examples: the U-2 incident in 1960, when the Soviets shot down the spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers; the CIA-directed invasion of Cuba in 1961; the Chilean operation. Over the years, there were successes for the CIA as well: the 1953 coup that deposed Premier Mohammed Mossadegh (who had nationalized a British-owned oil company and was believed to be in league with Iran's Communist Party) and kept pro-American Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi on the throne of Iran; the 1954 revolution that overthrew the Communist-dominated government of President Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala...
...companies can easily shift the destinations-as well as the source-of thousands of barrels of crude in minutes by a few calls to tanker captains. In 1951, when Iran's Premier Mohammed Mossadegh nationalized that country's wells, the multinationals overnight dropped Iran's share of the world market from 6% to zero...
...Referring to Iran's late, mercurial Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, who in 1951 nationalized British oil interests in his country. In retaliation, the oil companies organized a boycott against Iranian petroleum. Within two years it proved so successful that with Iran's economy on the verge of collapse, Mossadegh was deposed, and Iran and the oil companies reached a compromise...