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Junior Chimp
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« on: July 24, 2016, 08:37:44 PM » |
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« edited: July 24, 2016, 08:39:28 PM by Brown Line »
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Keep in mind that although Mosaddegh was democratically elected, by the time of the coup democracy in Iran had basically ceased to exist. Mosaddegh dissolved the Parliament in 1953 thanks to a rigged election in which 99% of the voters supposedly voted to make him a virtual dictator. The coup only became a certainty after the dissolution of Parliament pushed the Shah over the edge.
Of course, the direction that the Shah took Iran in the aftermath of the coup was bad in many ways, but the act of the coup itself is not something I have a problem with.
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