Word: mossadegh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arabs who were trying to enlist in Black September. They finally let me through, though I don't look much like a fedayeen type." Adds Bell: "I'm more the Winston Churchill type, as was testified to by the Persian mob that nearly lynched me during the Mossadegh days, when Mr. Churchill was distinctly unpopular in Iran...
...acted in the interests of oil before. As long ago as 1893, Grover Cleveland intervened in Brazil at the insistence of Standard Oil. In Iran, in 1953 (when "guess-who" was Vice President), the CIA engineered a coup against the popularly-supported government of Mossadegh, after that nationalist leader began nationalizing Anglo-Iranian Oil, the largest Western firm in that country. The CIA restored the present Shah to the throne, and a year later an Oil Consortium was created through negotiations between the Shah and American companies (the British and Dutch were effectively excluded from those negotiations). The result...