Was Mossadegh a liberal, democratizing force?. One reads and hears so many times that Iran was on the path to democracy until a CIA coup installed the Shah in 1953.
Was Mossadegh a liberal, democratizing force?. One reads and hears so many times that Iran was on the path to democracy until a CIA coup installed the Shah in 1953. It turns out that account is quite wrong, as is detailed by Simon Sebag Montefiore: As his support in the Majlis ebbed, Mosaddegh demanded autocratic powers. Both the shah and Majlis […] The post Was Mossadegh a liberal, democratizing force? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .