"Abadan and Suez are important to the local people only in terms of their armour propre...to us, some of these things are important in a much more serious sense." George Kennan justifying imperial rule in 1952.
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Featuring another prominent Roosevelt
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Which book or archival report is this?
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Lloyd Gardner's Three Kings: The Rise of an American Empire in the Middle East after World War II
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you just know whoever wrote that needed a tissue, or a sock
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I was staring at the grave of the Shah in Cairo last week thinking about this
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A distant relative of mine once described to me being present at the execution of Hossein Fatemi, in which the CIA was supposedly not involved.
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Almost every iranian was celebrating the return of shah that day that saved Iran from tyrant mossadeq who had shredded the Constitution, dissolved the parliament & bankrupted the country that was getting close to a civil war between communist, religious-nationalist and monarchist
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