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The World Power Of Iran

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The series of disappointments that have harassed the growth of Iran began with a poor foundation, its leadership and government, and has then snowballed with each coming failure and conflict, however it is the people who choose to stand on that foundation and continue on or rebuild it. Iran, throughout the last decade has had several shifts in how government is deployed, the indecisive tug and pull of religiously kept sanctions or a move towards further westernization, and the maintenance of the tight control on its population to maintain diplomatic control. The direction of Iran to become a world power is seen through the political moves of trying to gain stronger allies, such as the dependency of the British. "Mossadegh himself regarded Britain’s constitutional monarchy as the best model for Iran’s government. And yet his hatred for the British as a malignant force in his country’s affairs, and his intuition for what he regarded as the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company’s essential evil, was profound." (De Bellaigue, pp. 108)
In all fairness, the British Government was a power at the time with excellent executive leadership. Despite this, Mossadegh was right to have disgust for the British Government. Much of the Anglo- Persian Oil Company was based in Iran where the oil was extracted. Iran is an oil goldmine. The company, which was primarily British owned, paid money to the Iranian Government for oil that was extracted, however the profits from the taxed revenue that the

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