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To: Alexandermf who wrote (75344)	2/29/2000 4:46:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

And then we played footsie with Iraq because they were the enemy of Iran- and THEN it turned out we were snuggled up to a bad man, oh horrors.... And so it goes.

To: Alexandermf who wrote (75344)	2/29/2000 8:36:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

We put the Shah in power, but we had an excuse - the British told us we had to do it. They told us that Mossadegh was a communist (even though he wasn't), and we believed him because only a communist would object to having his country effectively ruled by the Anglo-Iranian Petroleum Company. We did not remove the Shah from power; the Iranians did that. We refused to intervene to assist him, because such an operation would have almost certainly failed, and because in the aftermath of Vietnam it would have been unacceptable to the American populace.