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Rewriting History So We Can Repeat It
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This article, written by Shawn Amoei, appeared on The Huffington Post on June 26,2012
It's been said that the Middle East suffers from too much history. This is especially true of Iran where people have very long historical memories. Mindful of this fact, the Right is trying to rewrite history so we can repeat it.
The effort comes on the heels of Christopher de Bellaigue's newly released biography of Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh, Patriot of Persia. The superbly researched book delves deep into the life of Iran's only democratically elected prime minister, a life that began 130 years ago this week.
Prime Minister Mossadegh was famously overthrown by an Anglo-American coup in 1953 for his attempted nationalization of Iranian oil. The disastrous legacy of this foreign intervention would be "profound and long-lasting." Following its perceived success, the United States went into the regime change business in dozens of countries, most of them democratic.
The coup reinstated the Shah whose unremitting despotism would continue for another quarter-century. Thus an all-too-brief democratic experiment was prematurely aborted by a dictatorship that would soon give rise to another.
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