Here's the wiki summary for
@Sccit, who still thinks that USA has been the "victim" when it comes to international geopolitics.
Mohammad Mosaddegh was an Iranian politician, author, and lawyer who served as the 30th
Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953, elected by the
16th Majlis. He was a member of the
Iranian parliament from
1923, and served through a contentious
1952 election into the
17th Iranian Majlis, until his government was overthrown in the
1953 Iran coup aided by the intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom (
MI6) and the United States (
CIA), led by
Kermit Roosevelt Jr. His
National Front was suppressed from the
1954 election.
Before its removal from power, his administration introduced a range of social and political measures such as social security, land reforms and higher taxes including the introduction of taxation on the rent of land. His government's most significant policy was the
nationalisation of the Iranian oil industry, which had been built by the British on Persian lands since 1913 through the
Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC/AIOC), later known as
British Petroleum (BP).
In the aftermath of the overthrow,
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi returned to power, and negotiated the
Consortium Agreement of 1954 with the British, which gave split ownership of Iranian oil production between Iran and
western companies until 1979. Mosaddegh was imprisoned for three years, then put under
house arrest until his death and was buried in his own home so as to prevent a political furor. In 2013, the US government formally acknowledged its role in the coup as being a part of its foreign policy initiatives, including paying protestors and bribing officials.
Mosaddegh was massively popular among the Iranian people, led the most pro-democracy party in Iranian history (the National Front, which still fights for Iranian democracy today), introduced unemployment, worker's comp, sick leave, and the end to indentured labor, taxed landlords for a special development fund to improve rural housing and public accomodations, introduced land reforms that allowed far more peasants to own their own property, and began to free Iran from colonialism and the foreign stealing of its natural resources. He was doing what he could to improve the lives of Iranian people, and the Americans/Brits had him overthrown and imprisoned solely because they wanted Iran's oil and falsely claimed he was pro-Soviet (even though he was pro-democracy and stanchly anticommunist) solely so they could put a fukking monarch back in power who would give them Iran's oil again.
THAT is why things deterorated in Iran to the point that Islamists could take over. Under Mosaddegh, it never would have happened.
But you think the USA was acting for "the greater good".
