Within Iran, the official narrative has tried to credit Ayatollah Abolqassem Kashani, a populist cleric who initially supported Mosaddeq and then broke with him to support the shah, as the leader of the oil nationalization movement. . It is uncomfortable for the Islamic Republic to remember..…
To understand their origins and assess their capability to withstand a US military intervention, it’s necessary to go back 40 years to the days that followed the fall of the shah. . On 12 February 1979 the new Islamic regime in Tehran brutally purged the Imperial Iranian Army, especially..…
Nobody saw it coming, least of all the Central Intelligence Agency, but just thirteen months after Carter’s visit the Shah was in exile and his regime replaced by a theocratic Islamic Republic, whose leaders denounced the United States as the Great Satan. . ..…
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