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He DID extend his powers over the country without any support and thereby he DID ignore the Iranian constitution, while Mossadeq did not ignore the Egyptian:lol: constitution.
How exactly did he "extend his powers."
In 1950 the Iran's Monarchy Constitution, Mashrouteh, was ruined towards absolute dictatorship by Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. The 1950 amendment granted the Shah the right to dissolve the parliament at any time and under any circumstances.
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Then you dont know much do you? Considering the British had already interfered in Iranian politics numerous times decades before to get the original concession precludes any notions of the British being unfairly treated, read your history ToT. Moreover, Mossadeq even offered compensation and still it wasnt enough.
Who built the refineries? Who owned the refineries? An economic blockade in response to siezing ones assets is a perfectly legitimate response especially when those assets being confiscated severly damages ones own economy.
Simple answer to that, who had jurisdiction in the country?
Twice the British tried to argue their case before the international community, once, in May 1951, at The Hague, and again in October, at the United Nations Security Council. Both times, Mossadeq won, hands down. At The Hague, he argued against Britain's complaint that Iran had broken an agreement, saying that since the contract had been signed between a company and Iran, rather than between two states, the court at The Hague had no jurisdiction. In June 1952, the issue was again dealt with at The Hague, and the case was decided in favor of Iran.
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Come on now ToT, tell us more about this great democracy of the Shah's. If you can make a case with the Shah's democrat credentials then it should be quite easy for you to expand on it shouldnt it?
It's called the White Revolution, the Shah modernized Iran and instituted equal suffrage to all the Iranian people.
There was no legitimate election in the Shah’s regime whatsoever. The members of the parliament used to be hand picked by the Shah not by the people’s vote and the rest was FAKE elections.
The Savak's interrogation office was established with no limit of using horrific torture tools and techniques to break the arrested dissenters to talk in a matter of hours.
The censorship office was established to monitor journalists, literary figures and academics throughout the country. It took appropriate measures against those who fell out of the regime's line.
Universities, labor unions and peasant organizations, amongst others, were all subjected to intense surveillance by the Savak agents and paid informants. The agency was also active abroad, especially in monitoring Iranian students who publicly opposed the Shah's government.
Interrogation, torture and long term imprisonment by Savak for reading or possessing any forbidden books. The prohibited books were removed from the book-stores and libraries; even the Tozih-ol-Masael written by Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini was forbidden.
Over the years, Savak became a law unto itself, having legal authority to arrest, detain, brutally interrogate and torture suspected people indefinitely. Savak operated its own prisons in Tehran, such as Qezel-Qalaeh and Evin facilities and many suspected places throughout the country as well. Many of those activities were carried out without any institutional checks.
Is that the democracy you're talking about ToT?
Gotta love those conjobs, theyll justify anything if it suits their own interests.
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Yes ToT read Kermit’s own account. If you’d read it already you know that Kermit and his buddies had bribed numerous mobs for hire and paid off numerous members of Parliament as part of a campaign of orchestrated black propaganda. That bribed support is the opposition to Mossadeq you speak of when you tell us about how I overestimate Mossadeq’s popularity at the time of his overthrow.
So your saying that in a country whose economy was going to hell in a hand basket due to Mossadeqs economic policies and one in which congress had been dissolved and a dictator put in their place, that there was no legitimate opposition to Mossadeq?
Read the CIAs own report ToT, Im not reminding you what country we're talking about or doing your research for you anymore.
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plus its clear that the US & UK were prepared to go through with the coup even without the Shah.
Why is that clear?
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No what the Shah did was much was worse and heralded the regime we see today in Iran who learned to never be so gentle as to repeat the ‘Mossadeq mistake’.
Mossadeq's mistake was declaring himself dictator and stealing foreign assets.
No our mistake was interfering in another country and getting blowback years later.
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Yes ToT whatever you say. Really ToT why would anyone believe your interpretation when you seem to have no interest in the previous history and cant even get the name of the country right? If you want to redeem your credibility at least bring some new information to the table or a better interpretation, or perhaps just get the country right for a few more posts.
I don't need to bring any new information, your interpretation is crap, you think that dissolving parliament through rigged referendum, and instituting dictatorial powers is all fine and dandy. It's you who has no credibility, like I say leftists have never met an anti-western dictator they didn't like.
Simple answer here. Two questions.
First I'll make it an easier multiple choice. What country are we talking about ToT?
A: Egypt
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B: Iran
Next question;
What was the Shah's record on rigged elections and referendums ToT after 1953?