Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran

and finally:

For all its apparent tolerance, the USA maintains a peculiar balance between the forces of capitalism and democracy. To achieve this I feel sure the country is guided by some hidden force; an organization working in secrecy, powerful enough to dispose of the Kennedys and of anyone else who gets in its way. - shah reza pahlavi

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the soviets and maoist china were far more brutal and genocidal than nazi germany.
Arguable, frankly, but even if true then only because Hitler lost, and thereby didn't get to (fully) enact the Hunger Plan.

Genocidal-scale mass murder was an indirect result of Stalinist and Maoist policies, whereas actual genocide was pretty much the raison d'etre for the Nazis.

who profiteers off of that?
You still haven't told us.

wiki said:
"The shah of Iran retains his benevolent [world] image despite the highest rate of death penalties in the world, no valid system of civilian courts and a history of torture which is beyond belief. ... the total number of political prisoners has been reported at times throughout the year [1975] to be anything from 25,000 to 100,000"
It's funny that the Shah's justification of brutality is the same as that of other dictator's you have cited.
 
Anti-semitic tropes are not allowed
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You still haven't told us.
i believe i asked you a question related to this that youve decided to deliberately sidestep.

no response to my questions about churchills financiers either. very telling.
It's funny that the Shah's justification of brutality is the same as that of other dictator's you have cited.
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and who told you that? the jewish press?

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There weren't any oilfields of strategic value in North Africa during WW2. Those didn't come into play until way later.

The reason why Iran got invaded, was because it was the easiest way to supply the Soviets, and to a lesser extent to deny Germany access to Persian oil. The "Persian Corridor" was in fact extremely vital because it was the only one that could be used under all weather conditions. And the reason why the Allies helped the Soviets was because of the very old concept of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". It would have been rather stupid of them not to help them. If the Soviets had fallen, Germany's position would have been largely untouchable, and if the Soviets had managed to beat Germany on their own, they would have been far less inclined to come to any sort of understanding over the nations of Europe.


That you actually went out of your way to speak about the "jewish press" is just asinine. That is nothing but conspiracy theory level here. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King may have had some issues with the press, but they weren't stupid enough to turn it into a conspiracy about Jews.
 
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Given that the word ‘Israel’ is what the I in the title represents and the OP is about israel in international politics, is this thread going to remain open?

Also, maybe it could be moved to World History if we're going to discuss the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran? Because if we remove the anti-Israel bits then it's definitely not current events.
 
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Wow. I’m coming around on hh being a troll because to claim that the shah was a popular figure in any regard is just... patently false, pretty much. He was incredibly unpopular.
 
I'd like to plug the 2500 year celebration of the Persian Empire in 1971. :)
Almost 80 princes, kings, presidents, and other big wigs attended.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,500_year_celebration_of_the_Persian_Empire
The extravagance of the celebrations was striking. Some later historians came to think that this excess had contributed to events that resulted in the Iranian Revolution and eventual replacement of the monarchy with an Islamic Republic under the Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the revolution.

 
Wow. I’m coming around on hh being a troll because to claim that the shah was a popular figure in any regard is just... patently false, pretty much. He was incredibly unpopular.
Not to his supporters.
 
Not to his supporters.

From what I've read despite his achievements in terms of education, female emancipation and other areas the Shah's autocratic, arbitrary rule and inability to trust anyone or delegate anything meant he had no real loyal powerbase or support, not even the military or educated middle classes. Some in the Iranian disapora may now look back on his reign as a golden age but in 1979 almost noone supported him.
 
I mean he was seen as a corrupt puppet, essentially. The 2500 anniversary extravaganza was only one specific event in an entire career of trying to draw legitimacy from kingship. His strategy was to fabricate a heritage in Iran to the Achaemenid Persians, and to move the cultural identity away from Shia Islam and towards the tradition of the Shah. Obviously this pissed off the clerical class, which was huge and powerful, but he also made enemies of the left and tons of other significant political tides.

A lot of the hoopla about his social reform was quite invented, much of it the work of people literally sent from American institutions to legitimize his government. On the ground very little was practically achieved from his reforms. His legacy to the Iranian people was repression of religious and political opposition.
 
As someone who is Iranian myself, I'll say that I do think MRP did a lot of good, but I REALLY don't want to be on the same side as someone who believes in Jewish conspiracy theories or someone who believes "the Nazis didn't do brutal genocide".

I'm not even sure if Reza himself would agree with those opinions, either. The current regime most likely would, but he wasn't the current regime.

Either way, people who hold these types of views should be left out of this conversation entirely.
 
I mean he was seen as a corrupt puppet, essentially. The 2500 anniversary extravaganza was only one specific event in an entire career of trying to draw legitimacy from kingship. His strategy was to fabricate a heritage in Iran to the Achaemenid Persians, and to move the cultural identity away from Shia Islam and towards the tradition of the Shah. Obviously this pissed off the clerical class, which was huge and powerful, but he also made enemies of the left and tons of other significant political tides.

A lot of the hoopla about his social reform was quite invented, much of it the work of people literally sent from American institutions to legitimize his government. On the ground very little was practically achieved from his reforms. His legacy to the Iranian people was repression of religious and political opposition.
Oh, definitely, he was the typical pro-US strongman ‘reformer’ of the era, but most of those who fled Iran were his supporters, or, at least, people who preferred him over the mix of Tudeh/Islamists/etc. who were certain to take power sooner or later.
 
Hahaha see. Back in the day when the shah actually was in power the us government was also funding “research” about how stable and popular his government was. Except in those days you actually had to present it as research, not just editorial articles.
 
Well, I don't think the interest of the article is the flattery of the Shah's regime but rather the claims that a movement is emerging to restore the rule of the Shah. I didn't think the US could possibly be dumb enough to think attempting to undermine the Islamic Republic by propping up the Shah would make sense. My understanding is that the Islamic Republic has never been especially popular and has only become less popular over time.
 
It's only been forty years. Forty-ish years after the destruction of the Chetniks and Ustashe the US started ‘helping’ fund neo-fascist groups that helped disintegrate Yugoslavia (of course, it was ultimately done in by own goals but that's for another thread). The US still defends Taiwan more than forty years after it decided that the PRC deserved the Chinese seat at the UN Security Council, internally it still tries to uphold as much of anti-Negro legislation and practices as practicable… being pigheadedly idiotic for a few decades has a lot of precedence, y'know.
 
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