What I knew about the overthrow of Mossadegh before seeing this amazing motion picture was limited to the CIA, the Shah, and it was about oil. I had no idea it was really about protecting British "Deepwater Horizon" Petroleum's highway robbery of Iranian oil. The whole ugly episode speaks brilliantly to the horrors of neocolonialism. The Suez War, with the US against Britain and France, three years later makes perfect sense now, not to mention the bizarre imbalance today of NATO taking aim at Russia--all while a half-dozen of its members are paying billions for Russian oil.
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