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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Of course all the communist on the dating apps are poly. Where were they all when I was poly?
Don't split the poly!
I did love being non monogamous, I just can't have multiple partners at the moment and don't see that changing for a while
yeah it kinda sucks out here. my general type(s) are leaning more and more poly or at least poly-curious/wanting to try it. both in terms of my political types but other shit i tend to be attracted to as well. i kinda wish i could do it but i just can't. it would eat me up inside and drive me insane and spread me so so socially thin.
It does take practice but it's WORK. Way more work than being monogamous and there's many valid reasons to not do it. Keep at it, there's dozens of us monogamous leftist out there.
yeah the raw jealousy (the cliche reason i know but its there) combined with just what a shitload of extra labor it would be are my main reasons. i try my best but barely know how to be healthy and present with a single partner, still figuring out how to do relationships there. adding more would be a catastrophic nightmare for me. also i have enough fickleness in my heart that if i got involved with someone new and shiny, idk if i'd trust myself to stay committed to my primary partner rather than just bailing on them. just a bunch of fucking reasons it's not for me. i feel like very securely attached people with limited jealousy and large stores of social energy are probably the best organic fit for it and im an anxious introvert lol.
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