Coach Pāṇini ®In 1953, Iran had a democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, who committed what, in the eyes of the British Empire and the United States, was an unforgivable sin: he nationalized Iran’s oil industry.
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Jim Luther@paninid I had an excellent history teacher in 1984 who covered all of this, along with similar stories around Central American, the Caribbean, the Philippines and more. There was lots of meddling by the US and other powers, and lots of FAFO in the years after.
Yes, the history of manufactured consent is long, detailed, and documented: https://youtu.be/0cYs7IYN9qg
