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Re:Notes on El Salvador by bluish29 on Sunday March 31, 2024 @06:42AM (#39883073)
> That was actually one of the precipitating causes for the coup

Are you suggesting that the CIA was worried about democracy in Iran so they ousted him to give the absolute power to the king?

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Re:Notes on El Salvador by SinjonSuarez on Sunday March 31, 2024 @09:45AM (#39884190)
They just happened to ignore the fact that mossadegh nationalized oil right before the us and uk led the coup
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Re:Notes on El Salvador by philwelch on Sunday March 31, 2024 @01:48PM (#39886329)
No, and if you hadn’t disingenuously quoted me out of context, that would have been obvious. The complete sentence you should have quoted was: “That was actually one of the precipitating causes for the coup, which had a ton of popular support at the time.” By which I meant popular support within Iran.

It turns out that Iranians have agency of their own and don’t just do whatever the CIA tells them to do. In fact the role of the CIA in the 1953 coup has been deliberately overstated by multiple sides, including the CIA itself: https://web.archive.org/web/20150603235034/https://www.forei...

But even if you still want to blame the CIA, they still needed enough supporters inside of Iran who were angry at Mossadegh, and one of the reasons they were angry at Mossadegh is because he had turned himself into a dictator.

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Re:Notes on El Salvador by bluish29 on Sunday March 31, 2024 @02:00PM (#39886459)
I quoted the important part of your point. Adding that it did have popular support is a fact that is not established. The CIA and US media propaganda spread false reports about the situation then and still to this day. i.e this article you attached is a pure piece of western propaganda. And even if that was a reason, the reason why US abd CIA involved is much more obvious. It is the oil right getting nationalized. All other points are just cover up.

Edit: I replied before you edit your comment

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Re:Notes on El Salvador by philwelch on Monday April 01, 2024 @02:35AM (#39891417)
I’m not arguing about why the US and UK supported the coup. I’m pointing out that Iran was no longer a democracy when the coup happened regardless. I’m also pointing out that if Iran had remained democratic, the shah and the military would have had no reason to carry out the coup whether or not the US wanted it to happen.

> The CIA and US media propaganda spread false reports about the situation then and still to this day. i.e this article you attached is a pure piece of western propaganda.

That claim is completely inconsistent with the CIA and US government repeatedly and publicly claiming responsibility/taking credit for the coup.

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