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From: reza@ihuxb.UUCP (H. Reza Taheri)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Context of the Debate
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Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 18:40:05 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 28 18:40:05 1984
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>> From: martillo@mit-athena.ARPA (Joaquim Martillo)
>> If  Mossadegh  was  so  much  superior  to  the Shah in manipulating the
>> superpowers, how come he hardly lasted any time at all  as  a  ruler  of
>> Iran while the Shah was there for years?
   
   You are right.  Mosaddegh (the d is pronounced twice not the s) was
very superior to the Shah in "being manipulated" by the superpowers.
(Shah was not manipulated by the US government; he was controlled by them
and he "knew" it).

   Mosaddegh's biggest source of popularity was his refusal to bow to
the colonial wishes of the British Empire.  In this, he was openly and
secretly encouraged by the United States!  Letters from the US Secretary
of State at the time to Mosaddegh are in the public domain.  How little
did he know that the support he received from the US was only to get rid
of the British influence in Iran through a third party and to later on
practically colonize the country.

   He even received indirect support from the Soviet Union.  The Tudeh
Party (the Communist party) was a part of his coalition government.  It
has been said that the sudden pull-out of the Tudeh Party out of the
cabinet and their ensuing opposition to Mosaddegh was partly responsible
for his demise.

H. Reza Taheri
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P.S.  I hope I am not boring the net with my accounts of the history of
a country that is not directly involved in the debate.  I am just trying
to show that the situation in the third world countries has not changed 
and continuing the old practices will result in more countries like
the present Iran.