Wham,
I guess the devil is in the details, but the essence I guess is about one action leading to another. Strangely we manage to stay on the same piece of land - Iran.
Way back, MI8-CIA covert operation evoked Operation Ajax to overthrow a DEMOCRATICALLY-elected government led by Dr Mossadeq in 1951, in order to install Shah Pahlavi as a dictator.
Conflict of interest? No, this is over the black gold - oil.
So your question goes unanswered - how did the Shah stay in power for 15 years from 1953-78 till the Iranian Revolution broke loose and Ayatollah Khomeini rose and established himself as the Supreme Leader? Remember, at the height of the anti-Shah movement, over 2m Iranians loyal to the Khomeini took to the streets.
Just how did a bunch of foreigners manage to get away with installing a dictator over Dr Mossadeq?
How did he manage to lose his grip on power EVEN with the support of the world's 2 superpowers? That's amazing.
The Iranian people - or everyone? - just want peace and stability and the freedom to be happy - as they define it. The Shah might call it a crack-down on dissidents, but Islam, Christianity and Judaism specifically prohibited many things taken as "shit happens" today, say, pre-marital sex and ONSs.
So what if Islam prohibits alcohol? The Shah strangely perhaps thought himself invincible for famously attacking a group of theologians for attempting to stop the opening of a liquor store.
This goes to show how out-of-touch he was with his OWN people.
These facts are all over the Wikipedia - which WILL tell you when its entries are biased, e.g. cultural or political reasons, unlike CNN during the Iraq War 2001
;)
Goatboy will always cherish his former goatgirl.
But the world is full of fluffier ones.