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Saving Iran: Reza Shah in 1925

Losing Iran: British and Russian occupation in 1941

Saving Iran: Appointment of Mohammed Reza Shah

Losing Iran Forever: 1953 Revolution

Sources (in order) :

(Please note I didn't reference ALL of these and they contain details that I left out because I deemed them too tangential to the larger picture. However the details omitted do not change anything, otherwise I would have included them. Duh.)

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Reza-Shah-Pahlavi

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mohammad-Reza-Shah-Pahlavi

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-middle-east-studies/article/imperial-power-and-dictatorship-britain-and-the-rise-of-reza-shah-19211926/465D6AA160843BC3595790ABE7BD55D2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY-X8pxcXWQ

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/iran-during-world-war-ii

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxv9hZzq920

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/

https://apnews.com/c037d5af8b3b4be6ae47f125d847d0f0

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cia-assisted-coup-overthrows-government-of-iran

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/20/64-years-later-cia-finally-releases-details-of-iranian-coup-iran-tehran-oil/

https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A14e3e27e-41b7-43a1-8fc8-572e2a156db0