I also understand that this was done to protect the assets of British Petroleum (BP) from nationalization. For some reason, we did not object so vehemently whe

I also understand that this was done to protect the assets of British Petroleum (BP) from nationalization. For some reason, we did not object so vehemently when Venezuela did this with PDVSA. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9... ...I did not know this: "On 21 March 1935, Reza Shah changed the name of the country from Persia to Iran."