This is a real great example of an intervention gone horrifically wrong. So in the early 1950s, the democratic government of Iran nationalized the country's oil industry. That set off horror in the West. The United States and Britain joined together [in the early 1950s] to overthrow the democratic government of Iran. in the summer of 1953. And after just three weeks there, he had managed to overthrow not only the leader of the government, but the democratic system in Iran. (26:08–26:11)
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Asserts that the U.S. and Britain collaborated to overthrow Iran's government in the 1950s.
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