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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it's amazing to me how viscerally and knee-jerkingly some people do not understand the Softboy Experience. fuck toxic masculinity. also american baby boomers are some of the most emotionally misshapen and stunted cadre of people to walk this earth. how dare a masc show healthy sadness or value and take seriously his/their bonds with others.
fuck it. i will keep wearing nail polish and jewelry and keep talking fruity and flamboyant sometimes. i will get my heart broken dozens more times. i will let life kick the absolute shit out of me and embrace every little feeling this beating evokes.
It hurts, it would be so easy to give in and just go completely
and 
Ah, well, nevertheless, we stay silly
Am sorry you got your heart broken again :(
me too amigo this year + has been a bit of a heartbreak carousel for ya boy. after many false starts maybe it's time for me to finally have that ho phase i've pondered off and on just to take a break from it all lmao
Softboys are based
I give them
aw h*ck yeah
and ur pretty based your own dang self buddy
I feel like I salvaged and protected a little sweet shred of softness throughout all the standard masculine conditioning of my upbringing, and only in the last few years have I felt really safe about it's continued presence and health. I shudder to think about all those who have had every trace of tenderness scoured from them entirely. When I was at my most toxically masculine I was also at my most emotionally repressed and insecure. It's no way to live longterm.
they just like me fr
but yeah it must truly be a hell to fully internalize all that shit, i'm so glad i came to the realizations i did. just creates deeply damaging and damaged people. probably takes literal years off your life.
I have softboy moods. I also have hardboy moods. It is weird to see the change in people when I switch up. Cause like, I am usually tediously masculine so I can see people think about it. I think my expression is someone around John Cena. Like, obviously a physical threat but clearly enjoying a tea party
Everyone is usually surprised by how much i act like just a little guy when I'm a pretty big guy. I'm just a little guy at heart ok don't be mean to me