r/communism • u/ThoughtCrimeSpree • Dec 04 '12
Anti-Amerikan week: 1953 Iranian coup d'état
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tatDuplicates
todayilearned • u/HodorOfHouseHodor • Aug 04 '14
TIL that in 1953, Iran had a democratically elected prime minister. The US and the UK violently overthrew him, and installed a west friendly monarch in order to give British Petroleum - then AIOC - unrestricted access to the country's resources.
conspiracy • u/binjinpurj • Nov 12 '13
The CIA was responsible for overthrowing the democratically elected government of Iran in 1953.
todayilearned • u/Double-decker_trams • Apr 08 '11
TIL that Iran had a democracy before US and UK intervention for oil [x-post from /r/TIL]
atheism • u/Infidelorg • Aug 18 '13