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Irrelevant. There's no reason to suggest, had United States and Britain not instigate the 1953 coup, the Iranian government would be a bad government.
by meric 14y ago
Irrelevant. There's no reason to suggest, had United States and Britain not instigate the 1953 coup, the Iranian government would be a bad government.
- rdl 14y agoTrue -- if you didn't have the coup, it's unlikely you would have had an absolute monarch and thus probably not an islamic revolution either. The 1947-1953 government wasn't particularly stable on its own, though, and it's not like neighbors (or states anywhere) with massive natural resource finds tend toward good government, though. Reza Shah was probably the best government in modern Iranian history (although I'm not an expert). Still, if I were there in 1954-1979 I would have been against the Shah, and 1979-now against the IR. (although my level of "against" probably would have been "GTFO and go try to start a business in the UK or US or even UAE".)