[lit-ideas] Re: Aren't you delighted you no longer have a Hitler problem?
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 14:31:40 -0400
[Judy on my contention that the USSR controlled Iran before
the CIA coup]: I doubt he has, given that there's ample
evidence to the contrary.
________
Duh ... Judy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_crisis
The Iran crisis was an international crisis concerning Iran
in 1946. The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin continued to
occupy Iran. After the Shah, Reza Shah Pahlavi, declared
sympathies with Hitler, United Kingdom and the Soviet Union
sent troops to Iran, which resulted in sending the Shah into
exile to Mauritius. His son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was then
appointed as the new king by the occupying forces. In 1946
parts of Iran were occupied by British forces and the Red
Army had occupied the northern parts. Stalin was attempting
to extend the Soviet sphere of influence by assisting in the
building of new independent countries, so the Kurdish
Republic of Mahabad was founded under president Pesheva Qazi
Muhammad. After the Soviet Union was forced to leave Iran
because of pressure from the United States, the Iranian army
with help of foreign forces and its neighbours was able to
conquer the Kurdish capital Mahabad. The leaders of the
Republic were hanged in Chwarchira Square in the center of
Mahabad in 1947.
The result of the conflict become one of the factors in the
evolving and differing political relationship between the
United States and the Soviet Union. It was also one of the
first steps at the beginning of the Cold War.
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