Iran Has Sentenced 2 Human Rights Lawyers to 6 Years in Prison, The two were arrested in August when they took part in a protest outside parliament calling for free elections

You don't know what you are talking about.

Mossadegh was the dictator. He held a fake referendum and used it as an excuse to throw out the Parliament and Constitution. The "coup" was actually just the Shah (the constitutional monarch) using his legal authority to dismiss the prime minister and appoint a new one.

Elections were restored.

Let's say a cell phone company pays you to build a reception tower in your back yard. You agree. They give you money every month for the use of the tower. One day, you demand more money and they say no. So you say "I own this tower now, it belongs to me."

That's bullshit. The British found the oil, harvested the oil, refined the oil, and shipped the oil. Iran didn't have the expertise or equipment to do any of that. It was proven when Mossadegh nationalized the oil and caused the economy to collapse.

British oil revenues were the primary part of the Iranian economy, the whole reason the country was starting to modernize. If Iran's government wanted a bigger cut, they should have negotiated legally for it, instead of seizing the cell phone tower.

Because they didn't build it, couldn't have built it, didn't know how to work it, and had lawfully agreed to have the tower in their back yard.

The current Iranian government loves to point at the 1953 coup like it was all the fault of foreigners. False. Iran had been having upheavals all the time back then. The Shah was the source of stability. British Petroleum was the source of modernization.

Mossadegh had upset the apple cart and plunged the country into chaos. Whose fault is that? Must be a foreigner's.

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