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    Quote Originally Posted by Default the Magyar View Post
    Also, I think both Britain and the U.S.A may be hoping too much, if we think that Iranian democracy will be pro-Western, many Iranians still remember their last democratic leader, and that he was ousted by a C.I.A-SIS coup and replaced with the brutal and idiotic Shah. A truly democratic leader would probabaly look alot like Mossadeq, rather than Karzai.
    That one always makes me go like this: every-time Democracy is mentioned in Iran by Western Powers.

    If you didn't know. The leader nationalised Anglo-Persian oil company (known today as BP - British Petroleum). In essence, it is sort of the same reason the "West" hates Hugo Chavez and other leaders for nationalising their oil supplies.
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