Comments by "TinLeadHammer" (@TinLeadHammer) on "Persia before Khomeini - The history of Iran in 15 minutes of perfectly restored film material" video.

  1. "Iran's oil is being exploited by others. It is the British who get the lion's share of the huge oil profits and who refuse for a long time to grant a greater share to the country from whose soil this wealth is extracted. In this situation demagogues are ready at hand. The then prime minister propagates nationalization of the oil industry, expropriation of the foreign companies, no more concessions for any foreigner. Iran must do everything on her own. The architect of this radical policy Prime Minster Mosaddegh. When the British do not agree, he stops oil production." - excuse me? The Brits extracted oil from Iran, but Mossaddegh was a demagogue to revoke oil concession to the Brits? The further description of the riots supposedly instigated by Mossaddegh and the restoration of monarchy is a gross distortion of what really happened. Mossaddegh had support from the people and from Majlis. He tried to curtail Shah's power, to have a land reform, to create village councils. "The wave rolled back" with significant help from the Brits, this became known as 1953 Iranian coup d'état, the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mosaddegh in favor of strengthening the monarchical rule of the Shah. He gave oil concessions back to the Brits.
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  2. Sure. Nothing about 1953 Iranian coup d'état, orchestrated by Brits and Americans.
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  3. No love to Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh?
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  4. Persia before Khomeini was similar to what Russia was before it started the war with Ukraine: an oil-rich country selling its oil for a dime, where a handful of rich aristocrats were able to travel the world; a market for foreign consumer goods. Khomeini changed all that, and it turned out that the country did not have enough indigenous industry to sustain its needs. I wonder whether Russia will follow the same path, a sort of ultra-conservative religious coup d'état?
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  5. I suppose you know that it was your country along with Britain who, in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favor of strengthening the rule of the Shah.
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  6. Was it the America that bombed Vietnam, or the America that bombed Iraq, or the America that trained Honduran guerrillas and sent arms to Nicaragua's "freedom fighters" and overthrew the government in Chile?
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