https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/72af69e4-c6d4-4cd2-8b79-6c3fd5442d2a Thanks to Keeps for sponsoring this video! Head to http://keeps.com/hakim to get a special offer. Individual results may vary. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ComradeHakim Twitter: @YaBoiHakim 00:00 Introduction: History and Foreign Meddling 01:22 Nationalizing Oil 03:24 Overthrow of Mossadegh 06:58 The Beginning of the Revolution 09:41 Tensions with Iraq and The Contra Affair 12:30 The Drums of War 16:00 Rundown and Conclusion As mentioned before, my usual sponsor left because of my stance on the settler-colonial issue. Show some interest in the sponsor and help me pay my editor fairly. That's all, love you, mwah mwah ❤️ Sources: Hess, G. (1974).”The Iranian Crisis of 1945-46 and the Cold War”. Political Science Quarterly Vol 89 Number 1 March 1974. https://www.azargoshnasp.com/recent_history/atoor/theiraniancriris194546.pdf, United States Federal Research Division-Library of Congress. 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