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Timothy Doner
@Tim_Doner
Middle East #OSINT at @C4ADS | Recovering philologist | @Harvard, @Cambridge_Uni alum | Featured in @NYTimes @TheEconomist @BBC for language skills
Sep 18, 2020 • 69 tweets • 23 min read
The weird world of fascism in 1950s Iran. This story's got Hitler lookalikes, CIA money, black-shirted goons and a bizarre underworld of Persian businessmen looking to revive the Third Reich. Buckle up! A thread Image As an undergrad at Harvard, I wrote my senior thesis on an obscure Nazi party called the Sumka (سومکا؛ حزب سوسیالیست ملی کارگران ایران), short for "National Socialist Iranian Workers' Party." If you have any doubts about its inspiration, just look at the armbands + insignia Image