Why did they overthrow Mosaddegh? He wanted to re-nationalize Iran's oil and British Petroleum would have none of it.

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Fred Bastiat

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Sauce. This covers CIA / MI6 propping up the mullahs and considering them as the choice over the Shah in the Mosaddegh coup. Why did they overthrow Mosaddegh? He wanted to re-nationalize Iran's oil and British Petroleum would have none of it.

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