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To: Neocon who wrote (9298)	5/20/1999 10:13:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) of 17770

Strategic calculations would have been entirely relevant if there was evidence that the Soviet Union was behind Mossadegh's ascension to power, or that Mossadegh was a Soviet puppet. We made a serious and loud effort to portray him as such, but if you go a little farther and read any serious scholarship on the matter it is much less clear. I see no reason to believe that Mossadegh would have been any more eager to turn his country over to the Russians than he was to turn it over to the British, or that a parliamentary democracy (the Iranian Constitution of 1906, which provided for Constitutional Monarchy, was ironically modelled on the British system) would have necessarily been a less effective bulwark against Soviet intrusion than the Shah. Certain parties, particularly in the US, did unquestionably overreact. The British did their best to portray Mossadegh as a screaming commie, and the US respected British "expertise" in a region where they had been entrenched for some time. But I do fault US analysts for failing to consider the rather obvious possibility that ulterior motives were in place on the British side. Too many people have drawn US support for questionable causes by denouncing their opponents as Communists.

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