Word: mossadeq
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...give up land to Russia in 1813, as one of the most humiliating episodes in their country's history. Hostilities sparked again in 1941, when the U.K. invaded Iran and exiled the country's leader on suspicion of pro-German sympathies. Furthering the mistrust, when Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq dared to nationalize the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company - in which Britain had a majority stake - British and U.S. security services mounted a coup to oust the leader...
Driving in Northern Tehran with family one weekend this summer, we passed a former palace of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Pahlavi—who came to power after a 1953 coup orchestrated by the Central Intelligence Agency and British intelligence toppled the democratically-elected Mossadeq government—had dozens of palaces, all throughout Iran. The palaces, situated on large tracts of land, are surrounded by towering walls, which serve as an aggressive delineation of space reserved for one man in a country crowded with the poor...