On this day in 1953, the U.S. and British governments initiated a coup d'état against the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh. Mosaddegh had been preparing to nationalize Iran's British-owned oil fields.
Mosaddegh had sought to audit the documents of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), later re-named British Petroleum, and to limit the company's control over Iranian oil reserves. When the AIOC refused to cooperate with the Iranian government, the parliament voted to nationalize Iran's oil industry and to expel foreign corporate representatives from the country.
In response, the British began a worldwide boycott of Iranian oil to pressure Iran economically and engaged in subterfuge to undermine Mosaddegh's government.
Judging Mosaddegh to be unreliable and fearing a communist takeover, Winston Churchill and the Eisenhower administration overthrew Iran's government. The coup action was also supported by the Iranian clergy, who opposed Mosaddegh's secularism.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) hired mobsters to stage pro-Shah riots and paid people to travel to Tehran and take over the streets of the city. Between 200 and 300 people were killed in the ensuing mayhem.
Mosaddegh was arrested, tried, and convicted of treason by the Shah's military court. Many of his supporters were imprisoned, several received the death penalty. Mosaddegh himself lived the rest of his life under house arrest, dying in 1967.
After the coup, the Shah ruled as a monarch for the next 26 years until he was overthrown in the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
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didnt that one city in some euro country remove all of their traffic lights and signage and that somehow reduced their traffic fatalities to zero because people had to actually drive with situational awareness instead of offloading their thinking onto signs and blinky shiny lights?
Idk but it wouldn't surprise me. Driving at the speed limit doesn't mean you're driving safely, i mentioned in another comment all the fuckers who slowboat around my apartment complex looking for their building, that's literally less safe than someone speeding through because they're busy gawking at building numbers instead of pulling over to get their bearings
Driving under the speed limit is cringe. Driving over the speed limit is cringe. Driving at the speed limit is cringe.
Driving is cringe.
I know you're being kinda facetious but a lot of road laws fall under the "we need these laws so society can exist" category, rather than the "we need these laws to protect the bourgeoisie" category. Road laws and littering laws are probably the ones I care most about when people disregard them
you drive the speed limit to piss people off, i do it because i am a bad nervous driver we are not the same
Actually i'm the one hexbear user who has little to no respect for speed limits, I only drive "the speed limit" if a cop is around. Otherwise I drive at "a safe speed" which varies depending on the road, visibility, etc. This doesn't mean i'm going 90 in a residential area like people want to assert I'm saying, it means if there's a fucking highway and it's signed at 45mph I'm going to fucking ignore it.
People act like the speed limit is some fucking physical constant, law of the universe type shit.
I'm going to triple down with a take that will infuriate even more people and say this: fuck school zones! Especially the one ON THE HIGHWAY coming in to my city. Yes let's have a four lane highway slow to 35 because... a school is nearby, with no sidewalks or residential shit to justify the idea of children needing to cross. Literally pointless
Unlimited school zones upon driverSS
(can someone help me workshop a MSE for drivers?)
you haven’t seen the drivers in my school zone