On Anniversary of Republican Party's overthrow of the Iranian Gov't; Let's remember that on Jan. 6 it used the Same Techniques against our elected President

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Mosaddegh was the first elected representative of Tehran in parliament, garnering 30,738 votes.
51% : Many Iranians were unhappy with the 1933 deal between the AIOC and Reza Shah, which paid Iran a small royalty on its own petroleum.
49% : The British had refused to negotiate a new deal, so Mosaddegh and parliament invited all of the British to leave the country.
47% : By 1950 the British government received more in taxes on the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's profits than the Iranian people did on their own petroleum.
46% : The lower house in Iran was elected in 1950, and half of the senate was elected in a two-stage election in 1949-1950 (the shah appointed the other half).
44% : August 19 is the anniversary of the 1953 overthrow by Republican President Ike Eisenhower of the legitimate government of Iran, and it is worth reflecting today on how the GOP used the same repertoires of dirty tricks in an attempt to overthrow the US government on Jan. 6, 2021.
43% : They staged a huge march in Tehran, led by elderly arisocrat Mohammad Mosaddegh, from his house to the palace of the shah, demanding free elections in which the shah and his interior minister did not intervene.
40% : Iran was jointly occupied during WW II by Britain, the United States and Russia, and was used by the allies to resupply Russia during its war on the Eastern Front with Nazi Germany.
38% : The British MI6 intelligence arm developed a plot to overthrow Mosaddegh, but they no longer had any assets in Iran to carry it out.
36% : The CIA used local Iranian agents to buy huge crowds of demonstrators who staged rallies throughout Tehran, pretending to be Communists.
35% : Fakhreddin Azimi explains that Iran had parliamentary elections in the 1940s and 1950s after the old dictator, Reza Shah was deposed by Britain and its allies in 1941 for refusing to kick the Germans out of his country.
31% : Right wing militias like the Oath Keepers used the Parler channel to organize the invasion of the Capitol, and Trump sicced them on it, just as CIA-bought crowds invaded government buildings in Tehran in mid-August.

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