Text in green is false claims made by someone blaming the USA for all of Iran's problems.
In summer of 1941 Britain and the USSR invaded Iran to prevent Iran from allying with the Axis powers - Contextually inaccurate.
The Allies occupied Iran, securing a supply line to Russia, Iran's petroleum infrastructure, and forced the Shah to abdicate in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
-Contextually inaccurate. Allies did not militarily occupy Iran, did establish a land link to the Crimea Front, and had little if any Iranian oil infrastructure to take over. MRP was installed to prevent an Axis favorable monarch mush as had been done to prevent the same in Iraq.
In 1951, a nationalist politician, Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh rose to prominence in Iran and was elected Prime Minister.
-Contextually inaccurate. Shah choose him as an advocate for modernization along Western Democratic lines.
As Prime Minister, Mossadegh became enormously popular in Iran by nationalizing the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (later British Petroleum, BP) which controlled the country's oil reserves.
-Contextually inaccurate. The PM was using the issues of class in a socialist inspired scheme to install at the very least a pro-Soviet government. Nationalizing the oil contracts was seen as a key step to disabling the monarchy, the parliament, the business classes, and pro-western modernists goals.
Britain embargoed Iranian oil and began plotting to depose Mossadegh.
-Contextually inaccurate. The embargo was installed because the British taxpayer had indirectly contributed millions of Pounds to developing and installing the post World War II Iranian oil industry. Prior to the British investment, the Iranian output of oil was negligible and undeveloped. The embargo was intended to force Iran to at least honor the costs which had been incurred in developing the Iranian oil industry.
Members of the British Intelligence Service invited the United States to join them, convincing U.S. President Eisenhower that Mossadegh was reliant on the Tudeh (Communist) Party to stay in power.
-Contextually inaccurate. The PM was actively engaged in preventing western styled programs for development. The political debate in Iran was framed as the Shah being the advocate for the way of the European and an implied corruption. While the PM was the champion for a socialist development more in keeping with Islamic ways, therefor a pure path. The Iranian monarchy began facing violence and political instability at the hands of the Iranian communists who were the chief supporters of the PM's policies. Realizing this, Churchill advocated that the USA better step up to bat for the monarch if it expected to ever see a modern Iranian state friendly to the west.
In 1953, President Eisenhower authorized Operation Ajax, and the CIA took the lead in overthrowing Mossadegh and supporting a U.S.-friendly monarch; and for which the U.S. Government apologized in 2000.
-Contextually inaccurate and already answered by me "Prime Minister Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, with backing from Communist members of Parliament sought to punish the Shah for having repelled the Soviets from Iran in 1945-46. O do so, the Prime Minister nationalized the country's oil industry on March 15, 1951. Over the next two years, the Prime Minister continued his installation of socialist/Stalinist programs. This culminated in the Shah taking a stand finally and officially dismissed the PM. The PM in turn attempted to depose the Shah and arrest his family and royalists. The Shah was forced to flee on August 16, 1953. By August 22, 1953 the Shah had returned after the people, members of parliament, and intellectuals who agreed with modernizing Iran decided that they were not quite ready for a Stalinist regime in Iran closely allied with the Soviet Union."
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