The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds - 611 - Operation Ajax - Part One

Episode Date: December 5, 2023

Comedians Gareth Reynolds and Dave Anthony examine Iran and Operation Ajax Tour Dates Redbubble Merch Sources   Squarespace Hydrow - Code: Dollop

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That's right. Junior. Whoa. Grandson of President Teddy Roosevelt was born in Muenot. Wow. Of course he had a Kermit. So it's like Fossey and Kermit. Are you saying?

It's going to get better. Fossey? A bear. It'll get better? Yeah. It's only going to get. It can't get better. I would say we're warm.

up. Nah. Good. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His father was a manager at National City Bank, which is now, at National City Bank, which is not just Citibank. Which we all love. Love.

Great place. Very helpful to everybody. So good. So good. They soon returned to the U.S. And Kermit grew up in Oyster Bay in New York. Okay. Frogs and oysters.

Went off. There's going to be a lot more of that stuff. Yeah, that's too bad. He went to Harvard, and then he ends up teaching history at Caltech in Pasadena. Nice. Now, Kermit joins the Office of Strategic Services, the OSS in World War II. Okay. It's an early, early version of what would become the CIA.

Okay. It's intelligence. its secret I think they called it. Sort of. And we don't know what he did because we don't know what anybody did in OSS. We know he did spend time in Egypt

and in Italy and Finland. And eventually he became the chief of the CIA near East and Asia division. Okay. So he's a mover. Sure. Soviet agent Kim Filby called Kermit

the quiz essential quiet American, a courteous, quote, a courteous, soft-spoken Easterner with impeccable social connections, well-educated rather than intellectual, pleasant, and unassuming as host and guest, especially, and especially nice wife.

A lot of, that's a Soviet guy? Yeah, Soviet agent, yeah. So, see, that's strange, because you would imagine that that is like a red flag if you're thinking of the purpose of the CIA. It's strange. And the wife thing's not great either. Makes me feel like... Mind your business.

You know what I mean? Mind your business a little bit on this one. Are you talking to me personally about what I'm saying on this show, which is about talking and speculating and enjoying? Yeah. Yeah. Well, you're about to air out all his business. So no, I won't.

I'll talk about his business. am I going to air it out or am I going to say since the 1700s Persia was controlled by members of the Qajar dynasty the Qadjars liked to live large and paid for their playboy lifestyles by taking loans and giving up temporary rights to land and national resources

they of course gave it up to British and Russian powers sure that's what a that's what a shitty fuckhead king does right well i mean i think just a king but yes in 1901 the cajar king was in a lot of debt to russia so he sold british millionaire dandy he's a dandy william knox darcy exclusive oil prospecting rights for the entire country oh god except for five five northern provinces. So we're talking about larger than Texas and California combined.

Wow. Because Iran's huge. So Darcy paid the king 20,000 pounds in cash which is about 4 million today. And he got Okay.

He got, this is a shit deal. Yeah. And he got 20,000 pounds You're really screwing me here, King. You really are. You're taking me to talk.

I'm over a barrel. All right, fine. Four million, four billions and billions. He did get 16% of future profits. 16. 16%. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay, sure. Great. Enjoy. It's possible he had no idea how to negotiate. Yeah. That's a manager's fee. Years before another king had granted to Baron Julius Day

Router, founder of Reuters. Oh. News agency. Yeah. So a king had given him control over most of Iran's mines, the railway construction,

the irrigation networks, and a bunch of other projects. And then in 1890, a British military officer got a total monopoly on Iran's tobacco crops. So Array

was like a fire sale. Yeah, basically. So that ran was just like, we don't need any of this stuff. Here, you do everything. Take everything. I mean, they needed it, but the king was just like, well, I'll sell that. Right. Oh, they're not called the king, but whatever.

So Iran was what... And at this point, it's called Persia, but Iran was what the British called a semi-colony, which is a colony in everything but name. To just take an advantage, just totally fucking over it, basically. Yeah. And Iran's just like, we're a country in there. Of course you are. You're a big boy.

Yeah. Look at you, a big old country standing up on your own while you give away all tobacco, oil, and train rides. Gosh, you are really quite an independent nation. Thanks. Jolly good job. I feel pretty good. Well, you should.

You're an unbelievable nation. Look at you, eh? So I'm doing really well. I got cars and houses and chip, but all the people are starving and they don't have jobs. So it's not great, but I'm fine. You know what I mean?

Hey, I'm America. That sounds like a pretty good idea. How long did that take to put a new effect? I'll give it a shot. About 50 years, yeah. I think I can come in. under that. British foreign minister Lord Kersen, quote,

the most complete and extraordinary surrender of the entire industrial resources of a kingdom into foreign hands that had probably ever been dreamt of. Wow. So yeah. So legit. Yeah. So it's like a wet dream for colonialists. Yes. Yeah.

Yes. So over the years there, were boycotts, there were communist movements, a secessionist party, all that kind of stuff. And in the summer of 1906, 12,000 Persian men camped out in the British Embassy Gardens demanding they get a constitution. Okay. So over five years, they wrote and ratified a constitution. And they created a Democratic parliament of representation called a

Majlis. Okay. I might have said that wrong, but Majlis, I'm trying to read it. Yeah, sure. We'll go with Majlis, obviously. How you spell on that? Not my native, like M-A-J-L-E-S. Majlis.

Yeah, I like that. Majlis. I think that'll like. That's the phonetic spelling. They kept the king, so it's a constitutional marrake. That's what they have, 1906 or 19, whatever, 11. King's not popular. You could imagine why.

Well, yeah, because he's selling everything piecemeal. Yeah. Yeah, and having parties, basically. So he agrees that he would limit his power largely to the control of the military. So he's just going to kind of have control of the military. And then he died of a heart attack 40 days later. So he even sold his heart.

Yes, he sold his heart to the British. Yep. Persia was a majority Shiai Muslim country. The Ayatollah was very influential, but not like now, not like the Supreme Leader. Right. Right. So like, yeah.

So Darcy, the guy, the British guy, his men find the largest oil well ever, the history of the world. And so the British government. has a new corporation formed the Anglo-Persian oil company. What years this again? This is, I don't have a date in here. Okay, roughly? I think it's like the 20s.

Okay. Oh, no, it's, yeah, I think it's the 20s. It might be the 30s. But the Anglo-Persian oil company eventually becomes BP. Should I just call it BP? So cool. Churchill saw a world war coming, and he knew oil was going to be the difference maker. So Anglo-Persian slash BP took control with the British government spending $400 million today to buy 51% of the company.

Okay. So majority owners. So classic. Yeah. So Anglo-Persian gave. first priority and a really big discount to the British Royal Navy. Okay. So that was nice.

Yeah. The company built the world's largest oil refinery on the island of Abadad in the Persian Gulf. It's one of the hottest places on Earth. I was going to say, I bet the inhabitants were like, wait, what are you doing? It's like, ah, it's not going to be great. Yeah.

Excuse me. It's very smoky. Yeah, it's not good here. We had just like a little island before. Yes, now you've got a lovely industrial nation. Look at you. We just had like, we were just like rolling with like goats and like we had little shacks. We were doing great.

Like we had a nice little setup. Well, the goats have passed. You will too. Gosh, good for you. Why are you whistling after saying? I'm enjoying myself. When you get one. weaker, we get stronger. Do you understand?

Yes. I eat your sadness for happy. I know you do. You're British. You're like a vampire kind of. Look at me. I'm like an ugly Alfred Hitchcock, and that's saying something. So almost all the technicians and administrators are British. They have really fancy homes. They have air conditioning, terraces, tennis courts, swimming pools, lawns.

Right. Hottest place on earth. Got to have lawns. You got to imagine the first guy I had air conditioning. Everyone was like, what? Are you talking about?

What is going on? You got fridge air? At the same time, on this island, a hundred thousand Iranian laborers live in dormitories with primitive sanitation. Or they lived in a slum

called Kagazabad. It sure is bod. It's also called Paper City. So there's no running water. Nice. Paper City. Nice. So there's no running water.

This is awesome. This is such a... This is cool. This is like the blueprint. There's no electricity. This is like going to the first McDonald's. The walls... Uh-huh.

Are paper. Of what they live in. Are made of oil drums hammered flat. Cool. That's so cool. That's good for the heat. Yeah, and I'm sure those are thoroughly cleaned and, yeah.

Oh, yeah, definitely. Yeah. In winter, it flooded and became a lake, so mud was knee-deep. Canoes would run along the roads for transportation. Oh, you mean mud canoes? Those are effective, too. Also, small nipping flies bred in the stagnant water and rose up in clouds so thick, they jammed the refinery fans.

Wow. Wow. Oh my God. It's like Fantasia. Hey, what's the worst place I can live? Honestly, meanwhile, they're like, my air conditioner goes all the way down to 50. You're like, believe this. Good Lord. Going for a swim in the pool. So in summer, wind and sandstorms, came off the desert and the metal shanties made of the oil barrels became ovens. Cool.

The alleyways are full of rats. Grocery store clerks sat in barrels full of water to stay cool. Oh, my God. Like just someone who got branded? Like in a cartoon? What do you mean branded? It like went in like a... Don't make me...

Oh, like in a cartoon. Dude, oh, I go what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, like a bread. Oh, and then he gets in it. It's like, it's like, yeah, so that's how he would sit there while he's working at the store.

Yeah. He's just working at the store in a barrel of water. And that just doesn't sound, I guess it could be cool. But meanwhile, the British are seriously just like, oh, I might have to put a jumper on. Yeah.

Very cheap. Yeah. And people are putting, are assing barrels. The air is always very heavy. It was sulfur. sulfur fumes. Nice. The refining burnt

thousands of barrels of oil a day. So Abadad's new shops, cinemas, buses, and water fountains

were all marked not for Iranians. Oh, man, this is, yeah, there's a lot of, there's a lot of great scenes here.

Yeah, there's a lot of, there's a lot of, there's a lot of, pinch. Oh, we hadn't thought of that. Actually, yes, we have.

We came to your country and you can't do nothing here. Yeah. Yeah. And the fucking nerve. Wages are 50 cents a day. It's remarkable. 50 cents a day. 50 fucking cents a day.

No vacation, no sick pay, no disability. The few Iranian administrators employed were not allowed to audit the company's financial records. So, okay, so this is before World War I. So World War I was won by the Allies due largely to their access to this Persian oil. And in 1914, Anglo-Persian extracted 300,000 tons of oil from Iran. In 1920, it was $1.5 million.

tons. So they're just sucking it dry. Yeah. Yeah. They're like nestly with our water. Yes. Muhammad Mo Saddeg was born in Tehran in 1882, and he was from a very well-off political family, very, very established. He was educated, he was trained in law, and at 16, he got his first government post, chief tax auditor for his province. And he looked at. He was educated. He was trained in law. And he learns the complexity of public finance and the corruption of the Godjars dynasty. So when... Yeah, he was probably, like, once you find a person who's, like, actually trying, they're like, this is crazy.

Do you always understand that this is totally insane? You guys, this is fucking insane. This is insane. This is, like, the craziest, they really, they've broken a lot of the tax laws. Did you guys know that? So... Just shut up and put your ass in a bucket. So in 1906, there's elections for the Majlis, and he wins.

He wins a seat. Okay. But you had to be 30 to serve. He's only 24. So he couldn't... He won, but he couldn't take the cake. Okay. Maybe they didn't think about that when he was running.

Yeah, I was going to say, yeah. I mean, well... No. It's like, you know... George Santo. Every part. You're like, probably not. He's great.

He's awesome. I love him. He will be missed. Mo Saddeg was a very dramatic politician. He suffered from partially psychosomatic digestive illnesses. Or ulcers, hemorrhaging, stomach secretions, and emotional fits, and he had breakdowns. Those don't sound, oh, I mean, I guess, okay, so they're, right. I mean, and also I guess this can be a brain thing, sure.

Well, I think. Crazy to think. Maybe it's the way of just saying, you know, stress induced. Yeah, right. He was, he was very passionate, very eloquent speaker. Sometimes he just tears would stream down his cheeks or he would faint during speeches. Wow. Like, it's a little.

It would be amazing if we had a guy who cried all. the time. I mean, do we? We got to have one. No, we've never had a guy that cried all the time. We've been a guy that broke down a couple times. I feel like we have. What if John Boehner?

He would cry all the time. Yeah, but he just cried once or twice. No, he cried a few times. I mean, the guy who cried all the times. Yeah, I guess he did. As he got older, he cried, but he was, uh, he saw what was coming. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, he went into the weed industry.

It was like, oh, cool, awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, so century of, uh, the, uh, Shi'i practice had normalized public emotion. So his, his, like, sentimentality is crying. It was celebrated for, like, having, like,

they were like, he has empathy for the people, all the suffering that's going on. Yeah. So in 1925, General Reza Khan, I should have looked this one up, Pahlavi, led a coup and took the throw. Okay. So the, the, uh,

so the, the Qajars are gone. But Kajars are gone. So now they establish the house of Pallup. And Reza Khan had been born a peasant, and then he rose up to general. And when subordinates didn't follow his orders, he liked to kick them in the balls. I feel like you could get behind that one, right? That feels like a...

I think that's an important thing that should come back. Yeah. I'm all about the worker. Also, I'm all about kicking the locker and balls. Yeah. Yeah. Now, his seven-year-old son,

Mohamed Araza Palavi, became crown prince of Iran. Okay. So Shah Araza believed that fathers showing love to their sons made their sons gay. Okay, cool. Great to be his son. Yeah.

So he withheld all the affection for Muhammad Raza until he was eight. So nothing until he was eight. No hugs, no. He just made sure he wasn't gay and then he was like, okay. Yeah, that he knows he's not. Well, you're not gay. I think you cleared the hurdle. Come here. I do love you. At 11, the crown prince was named Colonel in...

Crazy. In, Colonel in chief of the crack regiment. The crack regiment? The top. Okay. Oh, right, right. Yeah. That must be to me...

What? Well, having an 11-year-old in charge. Yeah, who probably doesn't know anything and, you know, no clue. Yeah, it's got to be... We're going to run and get them. I'm not going to get them good. But that's just so, that's just so royal shit. Yeah.

Oh, so there's a child in charge of the... Well, it's like, it's also so funny when you see, I think it's George, the heir, you know, the eventual king of England, that little kid. And you're like, three-year-old's going to be a king? We're sure? She's like, what? Seems weird. Was it? William's one who's married to Kate?

Yeah. he's really it's impressive how ugly he's becoming yeah yeah yeah I've got some jokes about his looks

that I've been doing among them that you know if that were to be like if that were to kiss Sleeping Beauty she'd be like how I'm gonna pass out again

I'm out yeah it's just like the way that they label Prince it's also like like and then people are like oh you can't physically like I think you can physically shame people like that.

I think if you have that much money and your people are like starving and then like, yeah, I think we're allowed to do that. Absolutely. Yeah, fuck you. We can make fun of how ugly the fucking royals are.

Yeah, because he looks like the ghost of a bird. No, but then all the inbred people feel weird. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So, Shah Reza is obsessed with modernizing

Persia and its image. This is when the name gets changed to Iran because he's trying to, like, make it more cool. Wow. That's like, imagine, imagine a really rich guy

having no clue that just changing the name of something doesn't actually buy you any clout or give you any sort of restart. It's just a stupid, useless rebranding that honestly confuses more people than it helps. He, today, that interview he had where he's out of his mind on drugs.

Oh. He, him. He says, Because someone brings up tweeting and he's like well it's not a tweet we need a new name for it

you know posting whatever and it's like tweeting you literally had the most branded name of posting something to a social forum and you got rid of it It's crazy It's like when Prince turned his name

into a symbol Yeah and you're like no prince you're prince I don't know what to do with this I'm this thing now Yeah this is me You'll call me this

It usually hangs from a white witch's neck Is like necklace But that's my name But it is true It's like I mean I just love watching The people try to defend that Thing last week

I mean he was just lost his mind In front of everyone And some people are just like They're falling right into his little trap This man is melting down So he So Shah Reza forbade photography things that he thought made Iran look backwards like camels. What?

Jesus Christ. You can't take camel pictures? No, no, because then people will be like, what's this dump? What? They got sick horses there. Their fucking horses are fucked up. Oh, man. He...

How old were you when you realized that their water wasn't stored in the hump? well, like 12, I think. That was probably about 39. 13. Oh. Still not sold. He forced thousands of peasant families into mass settlements. He built modern universities and opened the studies of law and medicine to women. He wanted Western dress.

He wanted that as a symbol of modernization. And in 1935, he ordered men to wear European bowler hats. The idea that you're going to be like, we are an up-to-date nation. Now everyone put on a bowler hat. Have you seen the movie Swingers? That's our country. All right. Here's a problem with the bowler hat.

Hot. Brim, right? These are people. These are Muslims. and they pray, I think, five times a day. And when they pray, they're supposed to touch their forehead to the ground. Right. That's required by Islamic law.

They can't with a fucking bowler hat on. It is tough. Huge protests. And they're quashed by the army. We're not going to take this, are we boys? Show them. Okay. 100 to 500 people are killed

Jesus Christ Yeah Jesus Christ The next year Shah Reza banned Hejabs in public This is so Police

Forcibly removed Women's Hiejabs Is it Hejabs I think hijab But yeah Hijab Hijab

Yes because the A's are extended the hijab in the street. And so it's the exact fucking opposite. Yeah. Like, what about some middle ground? So it's the exact opposite of today. So if a woman was wearing a hijab in the street, they would, they would beat them.

They would take it off and beat them. It's the fucking exact, it's the exact thing, but the switch. It's crazy. These people, like, just so fucked. Yeah, it's hard to keep track. All right, I finally got rid of it. I'm wearing that bowler hat. No, you're not.

What? So, Shah Reza made Mossad Degg minister of finance. Because he's so popular, right? Right. But Mossadegh launched an anti-corruption campaign that threatens Shah Reza and his friends. And then he is forced to resign. Yeah, let's see. Hey, did you...

What? What? No. Yeah. So I'm getting real busy. I'm getting real busy. Yeah, no, no. Going through all the books. You know why I asked you.

Going through all the books. You know what I asked you to run, right? You know how many cars you have that were bought? Yeah, a lot. A lot of cars. I love cars. Yeah, but you're not supposed to. You don't need mint coats.

It's ironic. Yes, I do. It's not what I need you to run for. Listen. I'm shutting down your campaign, okay? When you tell people that you used to run, you'll just have to say, I ran. What?

See you later. Okay, bye. Bye. So then Mo Saddegh runs for the Majlis, and on the free elections, and he runs on free elections in oil nationalization. And so people are like, fuck yeah. Well, yes, oil nationalization, yes.

he wins easily. He speaks often and he attacks British-Russian and American intervention and he calls for Iranian self-determination. Oh, come on. We've got this. Quiet. You're ours. Yes, enough of this popping off.

I think we can handle all this. We want you for your oil. Quiet now, Russia. We're here to make sure you do well. He said, he said, he said, we want you for your oil. Yeah, we want to take all their oil because fuck them. Oh, no, easy now, Rush. That's right.

Let's all just thrill up. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I agree. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. No, what? It's like blossom. Yes, love it. Jolly good.

Oh, gosh, we are the oldest pals if one owned the other. He also often criticized Shah Reza, who he saw as a thug and a despot. Because he is a thug at a despot. That's why. So Shah Reza rigged the 1928 elections, and his opponents lost. Okay. So Moa Sadegh retires to his country estate. He's living in isolation.

And in 1933, Shah Reza threatened to cancel the Darcy concession. Your dog is. having a moment. Is your dog coming up a heroin? He's rubbing his face. He's just the amount of

like refusing to figure it out. He's all right. He's all right. He really is. A lot of face, actually. A lot of face stuff and a lot of like back and forth the different ends of the couch try to get it right.

He's out of a moment. Yeah. Okay. So he's going to threaten the deal with the Darcy, right? The British dude. So an old friend who worked for the company comes, and old friend of the Shah, who's also like in with the Brits, comes and in two days they hammer out a new agreement. The Darcy concession was reduced by 75%.

Iran was guaranteed at least 975,000 pounds. pounds a year and the company agreed to improve conditions at Abadan which they never did Yeah Some those people are still alive Yes

Well they come and they come and go Right They'll mostly go Right So Shara Extends a concession until 1961 I mean

Dude that's almost 30 fucking years Yeah It's a shit deal. Again, shit deal. What are you doing? And so he's, so after 30 years, then it all just returns to the other way. Or he'll just make a new deal. Right. Right. I mean, essentially he's, he's giving away the oil that's, you know, for just cheap. But, you know, he also can't provide himself, whatever. Right. So, so he also doesn't like,

remember, he doesn't like the name, Persia. So he has. has the Anglo-Persian oil company renamed the Anglo-Iranian oil company. The focus is in the right spot. It's definitely... Hats. Re-gaming. Yeah, it's rebranding. So Mossadegh is devastated.

He's so devastated that his mouth begins bleeding profusely. Come on. Yeah. Come on. And he has to go to... He has to go to Germany to consult specialists. Oh, my God. And they can't find a reason his mouth is bleeding.

What? His mouth just starts bleeding? Have you talked to a psychiatrist? Ah. Well, what have you been eating? Glass and rocks. No. And, uh, needles.

Yeah, nothing. You see there. This could be psychosomatic. Yeah, I think it's in my head. Yeah, it is in your head. It's in your mouth. So old Noggin. Oh, you guys are fun.

The Germans are known for their comedy. Yeah. You are going to be pretty, we're pretty naughty ourselves. Don't, uh, yeah, you are. Probably that was a way to get everyone's mouth to please. You're going to get super naughty in like eight years. Hey, come on. leave us be

we're wild so they can't find a reason for the bleeding mouth the brain mouth is just bleeding sure maybe somebody's hearing about him in 1940 soldiers come to Mosadegh's house looking for evidence of subversion

and they don't find anything but they arrested me what are they looking for to see if he's like The government or trying to start a revolution. You know, if you're going to have a revolution, you have like a doodles around. No subversion banners over here. What about any of those number one fingers that seem subversive?

Nope. All right. Why do you keep writing Persia? But they arrest him anyway. And he protests. and he's not charged. He hasn't been charged. So he's like,

holding me is illegal. You can't just arrest me. If holding you's illegal, then I don't want to be right. And the chief said the only law he knew was Shah Reza's will, and he orders Mo Saddeg imprisoned indefinitely without charges.

Hellup. Hey, go. So where we last left Our sexy sexy Our heroes Saddag is he's in prison Without charge Well they had to drag him

To the car out of his house They had to physically drag him Of course On the way I don't know how this happened On the way to the prison He tries to kill himself By overdosing on tranquilizers

Wow So I don't know if they were just like Help yourself to the We have all kinds of Inns You'd think he would ingest you would in jail? Yeah, they must have. He must have just had them with him.

Yeah, but you would take him in the house. Why would you go to the car? So maybe he just keeps him in his pocket? Still, it's an interesting. It's hard to know. It's hard to know. In my mind, it's a car. In the back of the car, there's a medicine cabinet, and they're like, whatever you need.

You've done your homework, Dave. But he doesn't die. He just falls into a coma. So he's in jail for a while. He tries to kill himself with razor blades in jail. He also goes on a hunger strike. And then after months, he's allowed to return home but to be under house arrest. So he's having a good time.

Yeah, it's horrible. So for Nazis and the Allies, Iran is the key to victory. Just like the last war, right? It's oil. So both sides are now trying to woo Shah Reza. and the Germans offer him besides other things

they offer him a steel mill that he's really wanting. He really wants a steel mill. It's just the kind of, like when you're a king, you don't know because you're just a guy, but if you're a king... I want a steel mill. Relax, dude. You do want a steel mill? Yeah, absolutely.

To make all this deal in mill form and have an area where it's all made. Okay. All right, I just didn't know you were steel mail guy. If you're going to start accusing me and not really know him what it is, don't. I want an oil barrel factory. How about a house?

Yes. Made of an oil barrel. Yes. In 1936, the Hitler cabinet decreed that, quote, By the way, it's just nice to hear that name again. It really is. And the Hitler cabinet is where you should keep tranquilizers.

The Hitler cabinet decreed that, quote, Iranians were exempted from the restrictions of the Nuremberg racial laws as pure-blooded Aryans. Oh, my God. What a fuck. It's so, just imagine getting to the level where your racism can be loopholed by oil. It's like the peak. The is just the way that we, oh, It has to stop because it's been like, that's all it is now.

That's just what it is. It's just. I mean, that's the thing about the whole, the racial. His whole thing. Well, it isn't though, right? Because he fought, he made an alliance with the Japanese. He made an alliance with the Japanese. They're not fucking white, blonde.

There were Pakistani soldiers fighting with the Nazis in, like, it's all, it's all just, fascist is just convenience of bullshit. It's fucking bullshit. Just it's talking, yes, it's like, yeah, everything can be bought. Yeah. Fuck it, eh. I just, I want to point out that I'm not disappointed by Hitler. Don't get me wrong.

No, no, no, no. Because let's get ahead of that Reddit thread. The American legal system sometimes classified Iranian immigrants as legally white and sometimes didn't. That's so horrible. It really is. He got ahead. By the way, that's Rees Wetherspoon's best movie,

Legally White. It is so incredible. It just, I just, it's a fine, my complaint with this is such a tight rope to walk that I don't even want to, but it's like,

it's like, you're, even your racism is fake. You're just, it's all so viable that, it's just and then the term legally white

like legally white is really tremendous I want to renounce white but I will say this when the final solution kicks in in Germany start when it kicks off

Iran uses that 1936 decree to save a bunch of Iranian Jews okay because he's like well they're white And Hitler was like, oh my gosh, Jesus. Loophole! I knew I'd be eating those words.

So thousands of Iranian Jews received Persian passports and saved them from death. Wow. Okay. In 1941, the Allied powers invade Iran, and Shah Reza surrenders. The Allies then tell him to hand the throne to his son. Muhammad Raza and so the Shah flees and dies in exile

now Mossad ran for his old seat in the Majlis and was elected with more votes than any candidate So Shah Muhammad Raza not a hard ass like his dad but also not a like strong leader

type you know like a fail son right right he spent most of his life partying he liked flying planes he was into driving expensive cars openly cheating on his wife he's a party boy he's a party boy yeah he's a fuck boy yeah so the british immediately tell uh shah mohammed arza to appoint a pro british prime minister and he did and uh then they just ran iran right the british so the allies just took huge amounts of

oil and they built supply bases in Iran where they could launch military operations all over the Middle East and North Africa General H. Norman Shikomf

Schwarzkov Oh dude I was like wow that's so weird it's supposed to Schwarzkoff Oh shit that Papa It's just yeah it's Papa Oh my God And then one night he was with his wife And he was just like

I'm gonna launch just strike into your womb. But how crazy is it that the guy who did? It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. So this guy's in Iran and his son then does Iraq. Yeah. It's crazy, but then it's also the longer you watch it, you're just like, obviously, it's so not

crazy. Yeah, of course he did. It's just the simplest. Yeah, of course, because it's not genetic. It's just opportunistic. Yeah, it's nepotism. Yeah. So, Shikov spends a decade in Iran training resous police force and secret intelligence service. Standards of living fall for Iranians. Nice.

Prices go up. Nice. There's very poor harvest, which leads to hunger. And then the remaining food is just being diverted to military use. It's just, it's so... If you can imagine colonialism. It's so awesome to be used to it, is what I'm feeling. Well, it's amazing how there's just no difference between, like, the 1600s and in the 1950s.

No, we're just the model is... And now, today, it's still going to say on, like, exactly the same shit. Yeah, same shit. In 1950, Anglo-Iranian is extracting 16... point five million tons of oil from Iran a year. Half of the profits, of course, go to the British government because they have 51%. In 1949,

so they're taking the oil and selling it. It's not theirs. They're taking it selling it and taking the profits. Yeah. It's a great deal. It's a great deal. It's just fucked. In 1949, the company paid the British government

22.8 million pounds in taxes and distributed 7.1 million to shareholders and put 18.4 million in reserve and gave just 13.5 million in royalties to Iran. You know, it feels like the Brits are doing great off it.

They're doing really good off this. Really good. It's almost like, like, this is what I get is, I'm just like, the mafia is just everywhere. The mafia is just capital. a lot of the time. Yeah. No, I was yeah.

And I was just talking like to a relative of mine about the NHS and how much worse it's getting to turn it into to privatize it. And it's so like it's just the model of

this system is just never ending nightmarish going to kill everyone in every one and everything in its path and the people who are atop it are never going to tell you that it's totally fucked. So it's just like same shit. Yeah.

Did you watch the Sopranos? Yeah, I did. Artie, the guy who owns the restaurant and they take it over and then they're just taking everything out. And it's the same fucking thing. What's the difference? Yeah. No. No difference. Well,

worse food for the British. Worse food. Yeah, much worse. So Iran is the world's fourth largest oil exporter and supplies 90% of Europe's gas. Jesus Christ. Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevan wrote that without Iranian oil, there would be, quote,

no hope of our being able to achieve the standard of living at which we are aiming in Great Britain. Just be okay, Britain. Well, stuff was stealing. is wonderful. Yes. So fully just in order for us to be happy, theft is necessary. It's just great.

It's also great to be able to say it. That's the other thing. The quiet part out loud forever. Yeah. Abaddon workers go on strike for better conditions. Oh, come on. They have it all. They live inside oil drums.

It's eating. It's great. They live in oil. Be thankful. So the British organize ethnic Arabs and person separatists

into a bogus union and send it to confront the strikers Wait, wait, so they fake a union? Yeah, they basically go I mean, it's scabs, right? They create a scab union, essentially.

Right. And then they're like, you're going to fight these guys. And so they go and they do. do. And if bloody, terrible writing breaks out, dozens die, it only ends after company directors grudgingly agree to observe Iranian labor law, which they never do. Oh, Jesus Christ. So the breakthrough was that they said they'd observe it. Yeah. And then they were just like, nah, it didn't exist. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we'll do that. Yeah.

Get back in your microwave, boy. Go on. Mo Saddag and others in the Majlis keep calling for a better deal. I don't like, I like it. I'm worried about them. So 10 of them submit a bill to revoke the Darcy concession. It's getting pretty heated. So Brits can no longer ignore this movement that's happening.

So they meet. with the Shah and come up with the supplemental agreement. I bet it's gonna be... Uh-huh. More royalty payments. Okay. And a reduction of drilling area. So they don't control as much.

Like they could fucking drill everywhere anyway. It's the same thing as now where the oil companies just have tons of fucking lease land so much so they can't even actually drill in all the places. Yeah, and it's pretty much the same thing with the concessions that they're making. We'll plant some trees. Yeah. Iranians could still not see the company books or have a voice in management. That's fine.

And the British said that's their final offer. In Britain, policymakers from the foreign office, the Navy. It really is incredible that the Brits are like, or we're walking away from the way we steal from. from you. We'll continue to do it the other way. Final offer. Final offer. Or we'll keep stealing.

Yeah, it's not your lay. I think we do the final offer thing. That's it. We're taking your oil and going home. I mean, I guess the threat is always like they'll just invade and kill everybody. Well, all right. We're talking about the Brits. Come on.

So in Britain, policymakers from the foreign office, the Navy, the Bank of England, and the Ministry of Fuel and Power formed a working party on Persia. It commissioned studies, including one on Iranian psychology. Oh, God. Why? What do you mean? Well, just never, any time... You got a bad feeling?

We've got to get into the brain game, me? What makes the tick? Because then the language is going to be horrible. Why would you say that? It's going to be great. It's going to be bad. When did the British ever look down on indigenous people.

I think at some point an animal will be referenced and then it'll be all better. I'm a professor. Quote, the ordinary Persian is vain. Unprincipled.

Eager to promise what he knows he is incapable or has no intention of performing. Wedded to procrastination. lacking in lacking in perseverance and energy but amenable to discipline I think what you're picking up on is that they want you to fuck off

I think everything about that was really just like yeah no we don't like working for you you're terrible unless you're violent then okay I guess we have no choice above all he enjoys intrigue and readily turns to, I can't read this, provocation and dishonesty. So like sneaky lies and.

Again, I mean, this all falls under your pseudo occupation of their land. He's a, no, no. Quick to act. I ran it. Hold on. He is a sneaky liar who lays about. Yeah, because we hate you. Yeah, because we hate you.

And he'll promise whatever. whenever you want. Yeah, I just feel like, you leave us alone. Well, I'm not like, I just want you to go. There's no energy, but if you beat him. Yeah.

Quick to fibbing. Fibbing, fibbing, fibbing, fibbing. Um, although an accomplished liar, he does not expect to be believed. Wow. It's just, it's just,

like, they're just like, what are the worst things we can come up with? Put them in the file. Yeah, yeah. They probably, but they probably just pulled this from like their old, like Native American file.

Probably. Oh, you know how they are. They're not white. They're quick to anger. Don't love having us there. The British installed a new Iranian prime minister. He was soon assassinated by an Islamic fundamentalist. So the British insisted the Shah nominate a British-friendly politician.

Oh, this got cut off. Winston Churchill. Okay, Said Zia. So when the Majlis debated Zia's nomination, everyone expected Mo Sadag to lead the opposition with a big, long speech, a tirade against the British. So he's either tired or corrupted. Well, that didn't happen.

He just sits there very quietly. Everyone's just like waiting for him to do something. So a right-wing guy who's on the British payroll because right-wing guys are always the worst takes the floor and just goes into a vicious bitter attack on Mo Saddek. And he said at some point in this, he goes, Mo Saddeg should try being prime minister himself

to see how hard it is. Oh my God, idiot. You idiot. He called Mo Saddeg a windbag who liked talking but never offered anything positive. They're so much depth. And then he sat.

And Mo Saddeg was quiet. Here's what I want. I waited. I want him to either run or try to strangle this guy. Well, he waited for a nice,

dramatic pause. And then he said he was honored and grateful and would in all humility accept the offer of being prime minister. Yes, yes. What did he just say? Sorry. I mean, he must have known that they would stand up and be like, what do you want to be prime minister? Like eight. I mean, imagine.

Imagine. I bet you. You should try to be prime minister then. Got him by the balls, that old windbag. I love that there's always a right-wing guy that'll throw his people out of the bus. Like, there's always a fucking guy that's going to work with the British

or work with whoever. Oh, yeah. Always. Yeah, of course. I mean, that actually is, you know, it's an, I mean, it's essentially when we send people into government for change, that's essentially what they do. They essentially just go like, yeah, I'm here to fix it. And then they're like, ooh, dinners.

Ooh, cars. So now they take a vote. And he wins 79 to 12. Wow. Mo Saddeg said he would only be prime minister if the Majlis also voted to nationalize Anglo-Iranian. Wow. So he's like the only way I do this is if the gas company becomes nationalized or I'm not doing it. So they did.

Wow. this is a that British guy must have been beaten with hats and canes on the ride back not British he's Iranian oh sorry that Iran yeah

he must have been just beaten mercilessly for it oh my god they were like what in the fuck did you do I really stepped in it I really that seemed so good the speech seemed so good when I was writing

now imagine if he didn't take the deal so So they do it, and Mo Saddeg assembles his cabinet and takes the office in the spring of 1951. Shah Mohammed Reza signed the law for the National Iranian Oil Company to take over. It's shocking. It's shocking that it worked this quickly. It's shocking that it worked this quickly.

Yeah. But, you know, again, you have a sort of a popular uprising happening. Yeah. This is bubbling up. Like, you know, it's... So the British are terrified. Giving up control of Iranian oil is going to lead to nationalizations of other commodities in all their colony, colonial takeover, bullshit south, Southeast Asia, South, everywhere. Like, they're, like, scared.

Sure. Latin America, Greece. Like, they have everything. Yeah. They might need to do something. So Britain appeals to the UN's world court saying they should have control of Anglo-Iranian oil but lost. Good. So then they sabotage the Abadan refinery.

They boycott Iranian oil. They withdraw their administrators. They repossess all of their oil tankers, and they send several diplomats to try to negotiate with Mo Saddeg. But he's not budging. His argument was Iran's oil, like its rivers, mountains and soil belong to the Iranian people. It's interesting that ours doesn't, though. Isn't that odd?

Yeah, no, it's certainly strange. But other countries, there's due. That's ours. But to the same, but not to us. And then ours don't to us. It's weird. Yeah. Strange.

It's weird that the ones that do nationalize it, we vilify, like Venezuela. Yeah. Yeah. So he goes to the U.S. Mo Saddeg, goes to the U.S. He gives a virus speech at the U.N. Before they meet, he's going to meet Truman. So, right, she's going to meet the president. He gets a profile of Mo Saddeg.

And it said he was supported by the majority of the population. He was witty. He was affable, honest, well-informed. At the exact same time, the British described Mo Saddeg in cables as wild, erratic, crazy, gangster-like, fanatical, absurd, dictatorial, demagogic, inflammatory, cunning, slippery, completely unscrupulous, clearly imbalanced, wily oriental, who looks like a cab horse, and diffuses a slight reek of opium. Oh my God.

Just. Oh, Jesus. It's like a post when someone breaks up with you. Like, you could probably sell us. You could probably sell your people on it if you weren't so over the top with that. So over the top. Like the American's like, no, he's actually, he's pretty smart. It spits when he talks and chews with his mouth open.

He's got web feet and a tiny cock. He's a shit beast. He's awful. No, he seems like a gentleman. We just met him out of the hallway. Just imagine if dog shit became a man. No, he's a really nice guy. We just met him in the hallway.

He was like very nice. No, no, no, no, no. It's not him. He must not have met him. No, you'd know if you met him. No, he's got all just big bags under his eyes and just, cause, farts when he walks, and all he does is swear. He's got snake hair and just, you know, what?

He's disgusting. He's bald. He's dripping out of him. No, no, he's got hair, but it's like Medusa level. Where's a diaper, calls it his die-dye. He's always wagging himself. He steals wheelchairs from those who need them. He's just absolutely disgusting.

This isn't it all. No, it is. It's exactly what he is. No, it's just every time he talks, he bites. He's awful. What? I've seen, yeah, dogs will run away from it because he's going biting. Yeah.

The only thing you'll drink is water from a bin. You'll only drink big and bad water, the juice that comes out from bins. That's all he drinks. Oh, you've seen, you know the type. No, he's just gone. One unibrow. It looks like it should be an oasis. He's awful.

Stay away from him. He's got a big hole in his throat. It also talks, and it's shouting. It's always shouting at you. You wouldn't like this gentleman at all. He's absolutely disgraceful. All he'll do is every time he says a verb, he hits a woman, and every time he says a noun, he punches a man.

And every time he says an adjective, he shubs a child. He's unreal. None of that happened. He's got it every public pool and urinated. He's got it. Literally every public pool and urinated. And he wears that strange bathing costume,

the one that they wear where it looks like it's all, it's got to tank top and the bottom's connected to one. And he wears those, but he's got a little flap at the front where he pulls out his tiny tanger and he has a whiz. He makes us,

he does a slash through it. That bathing suit is called the Brit. Yes, and because he's poisoned us against ourselves, he's a propagandist. He's a propagandist is what he is, and he's done it, but he's done it in a horrible way. He's an improper gandist.

It's awful the way he's done this. Everything he does turns to crap. He's stolen every recipe he's ever tried. But you didn't see that one coming. You know? Yeah. That's true. He ate my best friend's brain.

I saw him jack off a dog once. We'll see you in the room. I saw jack off a dog once. Do you hear that bit? Yes. Yeah. I saw jack it off once. And I said, please stop.

And he said, until he finishes. And I said that dog's been neutered. And he said, there's still one short left in it. All right, bye. No, don't go anywhere. There's more. He's done a lot of other things.

No, I've... Yeah. Do you want to hear five more things he's done? No, no. I've got a lot more. I know you do. There's plenty left. Don't trust him.

Who are you going to believe? Him or the people who have only done good for the world? Oh, mama. So as Prime Minister, Mo Sadig freed peasants from forced labor on their landlords' estates. He made factory owners pay benefits for sick and injured workers. He established unemployment compensation. He took 20% of the money landlords' profits and put it in a fund to pay for development projects like pest control, rural housing, and public baths.

He supported women's rights. He gave women the right to vote. He defended religious freedom. He allowed courts and universities to function freely. He expelled the British, nationalized the oil industry, and he often conducted official government business from his bed in his pajamas. I left that last because that's the best thing. It's like a fuck you to Churchill

So he is God damn, that's quite a resume He is a lefty helping his people Yeah That's what we just described A guy who's helping his people Yeah, it's always shocking How far away we get from

It's just very obvious You know, that's the way to go Yeah In July 1952 Mo Saddeg got another Two-year term by the Marshallist he then asked the Shah to give up control of the war ministry and the army to the modulus.

It was an unprecedented demand by a prime minister, and the Shah was outraged. Without a war ministry, he would just be a figurehead. He said he would pack his suitcase and leave before he'd lose his army. Okay. Okay. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah. All right.

Off you go. So Mo Saddeg stands up and starts leaving. And the Shah is afraid that he is going to go to the streets and rile the people up against him. So the Shah runs to the door and throws his body across it. This is like a Tennessee will. William's scene. Like what? Yes, then go if you must.

Whatever. All right, I'm out of here. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait, what are you, what? Come on. Don't go. Where are you going? We're negotiating.

Would you just relax? No, you just, you said no. Hello, meet hyper bully. Have you ever heard of it? Take a seat. No need to go out there. That's where the streets are. Stick around.

Let's negotiate for a while. I just... Good to see you. Hello. Hi. You always get me. Always get me with that one. Yeah.

Hello. Always get me with that one. Are you doing? I'm fun if we met. Moe Saddeg insists the Shah step aside, but the Shah refuses. And after a couple of... of minutes of standoff, Mo Saddeg gasped and fainted. The next morning, in bed recovering, he resigns. And he writes to the Shah, quote, I cannot continue in office without having

responsibility for the Ministry of War. And since your majesty did not concede this, I feel I do not enjoy the confidence of the sovereign. And therefore, offer my resignation to pave the way for another government which might be able to carry out your majesty's wishes. Oh, it's so good. He's just very adept at this. He's very good at this. He's very good at this. So the British are thrilled.

Their enemy has taken himself out. They are fucking so excited. They pick another successor who was a four-time ex-Iranian prime minister. Oh, you've got to use him. Toothymic Crumpet. He's perfect. His name is Ahmad Gavam

Gavom and he's been Prime Minister four times he's known the Shah since he was a baby and the Shah does what the British want and he accepts the new Prime Minister they picked

so Govom goes immediately to the radio station to denounce Mo Saddeg. He declares the ship has a new captain and Iran's day of retribution

has come. Now most Iranians have no idea that Mo Saddeg is out of power until they hear this guy on the radio. And when they did, they went

bat shit fucking crazy. they go into the streets they're chanting death or mo sad day god damn govom orders cops to attack and suppress them

but the cops are like no and some cops start joining the protesters the iatollah i'm like i have like I'm like uprising horny Ayatola Kashini who had learned that the new PM plans to arrest him,

issues of fatwa ordering soldiers to join the rebellion, calling it, quote, a holy war against the imperialists. Wow. The communist militants join. Jesus Christ, this is. Come one, come all. Some soldiers open fire in parts of Tehran, killing dozens. Young military officers, however, are talking about mutiny.

National front leaders then call for a general strike. Within hours, the country is paralyzed. The Shah then asked for the new PM's resignation. I was just, I did radio. His term lasts four days. That's how long his term was. pretty good. It's like that's what we call a, that's what we call a, fuck, what's her goddamn name? What's her name? Liz, she's a trust. I love that she has to go to all functions for ex-prime

ministers and she's always there. Well, but she just, remember, she just made the cutoff for like lifetime pension. Yeah. That idiot. I'm not going to back down. That's not who I am. Where's Liz Truss? She left. So the Cha tells Mo Saddeg, he would give him control of the war ministry. The next day, Mo Saddeg is prime minister again. God damn. God damn. Now it looks like the British are fucked. Mo Saddeg is back in power.

He's more popular than ever. Now, the Truman administration had not joined the British because of Mo Sat Deg's incredible popularity. So this is a time when America kind of even had a modicum of giving a fuck. Yes, a little bit. The International Court of Justice had turned down Anglo-Iranians appeal. The United Nations pretty much supported Iranians. and then

then Dwight Eisenhower was elected president Oh God And Dwight and his guys Yeah because he was a military man right Don't like lefties Yeah So now the Americans here

And that's the end of part one Oh god damn it Just the worst Just the worst Just the fucking worst Just the fucking worst. Just, ugh.

It's like, when you hear about a figure like that, you, you are, you're so, part of it is that, you know, they're put down so easily now that those,

I mean, every now on them, one of them breaks through some places. Well, I mean, not Bolivia, right? I mean,

Bolivia. they did they had a fascist takeover or whatever the fuck that was it was a really crazy group that took over but he got back in power so sometimes the CIA doesn't get what they want no but most but it's also like but i i mean for this country it's like we i mean it's what you see all the time on fucking social media where you're just like why are you why are you supporting the establishment like that is you know, like we never, that figure is taken down in America so simply and easily. Most times it's a self-take-down.

Most times it would be like watching a wrestler put themselves in a full Nelson the second they get sworn in. But even when there is like some smoke, it just doesn't take much. It doesn't take much to just completely suppress it or cheat it or, you know. and and I think a lot, I think when you hear that ending, you know, or half ending, yeah, it's this threat of we're done taking your shit, you know, is really what has to happen. But then you look at that combined with now with the state of how they are so prepared for it now. And they're just like, hey, how about robot bomb dogs? or how about

drone armies that's what makes Cuba amazing that's what Cuba amazing yes yeah Cuba's fucking amazing that they have like amazing remarkable

like America's attempts to destroy Cuba which is why they're so villainized just oh totally just the so

research was by Sarah June the resources All the Shaw's Men by Stephen Kinzer The Brothers by Stephen Kinzer The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot The coup by Everand Abrah Hamian

The Shah by Abbas Malani The English job by Jack Straw State and Society in Iran This is by the way more books than I've read Yeah I know Muhammad Mosadegh and the

1953 coup in Iran by Mark Gazorowski and Malcolm Byrne the New York Times and George Washington University's National Security Archive

Next week is pretty fucking wild pretty wild you'll enjoy I felt the setup I felt like you I felt it was a bit of the

rope adope but towards the end we're getting into it. Yeah, I can only imagine. That's what we do. Yeah, what was the, wait, wait, wait, wait, this was something we said on the podcast before. Come on. Where is it? Oh, here.

It was something we always, it says, how is this going? It was something, oh, wait, here it is. Nope, it isn't. Okay, never mind. It was just one of those, those, it was, you know, the dollop quotes thing. Oh, here it is. Well, that was the dollop. Nobody feels good.

See you next week. It's a pretty good sign-off for the show. That's dollop out of context on Twitter. Yeah. All right. All right. Carry on. Nah, gobble, gobble.

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