After Mossadegh nationalized Iran's oil, he was ousted in a coup by the CIA and MI6. Abadan was the world's largest oil refinery, built by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, which the UK govt owned.
A year later they changed its name to what you all know as British Petroleum (BP).
A year later they changed its name to what you all know as British Petroleum (BP).
That 1953 coup in Iran was followed immediately by a coup the next year in Guatemala. In 1954 the CIA ousted Guatamalan President Jacobo Árbenz because his agrarian reforms hurt the profits of United Fruit Company, known today as Chiquita.
tldr: people are not allowed to do things because greedy, white capitalists want to subjugate them and steal their shit
You gotta love the table of contents in the CIA's documents going "Whose Oil?", as if Iran is located off the coast of Dover.
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