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.
CIA Confirms Role in 1953 Iran Coup
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U.S AND U.K are indirectly responsible for creating the current theocratic Iranian government? :capitaldcolon:
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I mean yeah, more or less. It probably wouldn't have turned out the way it did without the Shah there being a huge fucking asshole.
Rewatching Star Wars rn. The "snapping carrots" sound that plays when Vader is crushing that one rebel soldier's neck still gives me chills after all these years.
edit: it's crazy how good the sound in this movie is. R2 D2 has barely any articulation at all but they gave him a whole personality with fuckin 1977 synth beeps.
edit: they get flanderized later but the stormtroopers are pretty competent in this film. they're pretty hot on the trail of R2 and 3PO for the whole opening, if Luke didn't get tricked into taking off R2's restraining bolt they would have caught up with them at the farm and recovered the death star plans.
edit: lmao Luke's electro binoculars are so fucking terrible, my new headcanon is that that's intentional because the late stage capitalism of the Empire has replaced perfectly good binoculars with lenses with low quality electronic ones.
edit: come to think of it, both Obi Wan "Ben" Kenobi and Luke Skywalker keep using their real last names despite allegedly being in hiding. Seems like it wasn't fully thought out by the writers.
edit: literally nothing Alec Guiness says matches up with the prequels, at all. It is clear that the backstory was originally that he met Anakin Skywalker as an adult, and convinced him to leave home and go fight in the Clone Wars for an unspoken ideological reason (I like to imagine that Obi Wan wanted to free clone slaves), and trained him in the Jedi arts while they did that.
edit: lmao the red devil guy who's just sitting in the cantina with a big grin on his face while laughs play in the background. mood.
edit: there has been endless debate over the "Kessel run in twelve parsecs" line, but the real mystery line Han says when hyping up the Millennium Falcon is "She'll make point five past light speed". Point five what? Is he saying that the Falcon can go 1.5c? That's still extremely slow for traveling between stars.
the Star Wars role-playing games have interpreted this line as meaning that the Falcon's hyperdrive is twice as fast as the galactic standard.
edit: wait a minute, where the hell does Luke get that grappling hook from? He pulls out a bunch of rope for it, too. He's wearing a stormtrooper belt, are we meant to believe that every stormtrooper carries around 50 ft of rope and a grappling hook?
edit: the tie fighter escape sequence is so fucking cool it's unreal. They try to do something similar in the Force Awakens and it just doesn't work, I think it's because of the way it was filmed you really feel how much more manueverable the small tie fighters are compared to the much bigger Falcon, which makes them seem a lot more dangerous.
edit: in hindsight the "we're secretly tracking their ship" twist is kind of weak, especially with Leia immediately realizing what's going on and how it retroactively weakens all of the action on the death star. It would be better if it was revealed that the "mind probe" from earlier had found the rebel base instead, though this isn't a huge issue.
edit: I can't listen to the guy talking about the Death Star attack without thinking about the old ytmnd "princess LAY-uh" lmao
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sooooo what's happening to cartoons on HBO max is quite insane to me. erasing entire catalogues so an exutive can write a tax write off is evil :internet-delenda-est:
they're legitimately trying to erase all proof some of these ever existed. there's nothing on their youtube channels, i think they deleted tweets.
the creators behind many of these shows are more or less openly advocating for their piracy. i saw that apparently one animator shared a guide to torrenting before taking it down, and the showrunner for infinity train mentions in his bio that piracy is the only way to watch it
i think you kind of have to say that if you ever want to be able to do anything in a creative field again
I don't know anything about how this works but shouldn't this be in some contract? Why is WB able to do this without breaching a contract?
