Quote Originally Posted by Wigferth Ironwall
Idaho, you do realise that the Americans sponsered the overthrow of the Shah, right?
Quote Originally Posted by ajaxfetish
The Shah may have been a monarch, but he was 'our' monarch.
The British and US sponsored the Shah in 1951 when the Iranian Prime Minister started nationalising oil industry. Can't have democracy get in the way of Western economic development, after all. Things got out of hand, there were riots and the Shah became increasingly despotic.