Belonging to the Islamic Development Organization, Mehr Media group has access to first handed and trustworthy news within the Iranian Government.
- https://en.mehrnews.com/news/159449

The Islamic Development Organization is an Iranian religious and cultural organization. It was created by Rouhollah Khomeini after the 1979 Revolution in Iran, and is under the supervision of the Supreme Leader. This organization was originally created in the summer of 1982 to promote the ideologies of the Islamic Republic.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Development_Organization

(Jan 14, 2024 09:57 AM)Syne Wrote: Why are you citing Iranian state media?

Quote:The 1953 Iranian coup d'état .. was the U.S.- and British-instigated, Iranian army-led overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favor of strengthening the monarchical rule of the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi .. It was aided by the United States .. (Operation Ajax) .. and the United Kingdom .. (Operation Boot) .. The Shi'a clergy also played a considerable role.

Quote:STEPHEN KINZER:
At the beginning of the twentieth century, as a result of a corrupt deal with the old dying monarchy, one British company, owned mainly by the British government, had taken control of the entire Iranian oil industry.
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Bear in mind that the oil that fueled England all during the 1920s and '30s and ’40s all came from Iran. The standard of living that people in England enjoyed all during that period was due exclusively to Iranian oil. Britain has no oil. Britain has no colonies that have oil. Every factory in England, every car, every truck, every taxi was running on oil from Iran. The Royal Navy, which was projecting British power all over the world, was fueled a hundred percent by oil from Iran.
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Anyway, what happened was that Prime Minister Mosaddegh, who really was an extraordinary figure in his time, although he’s been somewhat forgotten by history, came to power in 1951 on a wave of nationalism aimed at this one great obsession: we’ve got to take back control of our oil and use the profits for the development of one of the most wretchedly impoverished nations on earth at that time. So the Iranian parliament voted unanimously for a bill to nationalize the Anglo-Iranian Petroleum Company, and Mosaddegh signed it, and he devoted himself, during his term of office, to carrying out that plan, to nationalize what was then Britain’s largest and most profitable holding anywhere in the world.

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When Westerners think of Iran today, images of women wearing chadors, American flags burning, and militant crowds shouting nationalistic slogans often come to mind. But those who have memories of Tehran in the 1960s and 1970s paint a very different portrait of Iranian life.

Before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the country's capital was a cultural vanguard. The New York Times notes, "Until the revolution, Iran was among the most cultured, cosmopolitan countries in the region. It had a progressive movement in art and literature and a sophisticated film and television industry." Its education system welcomed both women and men, and jet-setting Tehrani urbanites headed to midcentury modern ski chalets in the Alborz Mountains.
- https://www.npr.org/2012/02/16/146977562/foreign-policy-once-upon-a-time-in-tehran

Quote:In June 1913, Mosaddegh received his doctorate and in doing so became the first Iranian to receive a PhD in Law from a European university.