Mosaddegh and Iran: Foreign friends and domestic foes
On the anniversary of the CIA - staged coup against Iran's first modern democratic government of Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh - A little known historic fact:
There were many Iranians - thugs, police and army officers, politicians, and Islamic clergymen - who were on the payroll of foreign governments, and actively sabotaged nationalization of their country's oil and Dr. Mosaddegh's government. This led to the August 19, 1953 coup and the removal of Mosaddegh from power.
On the other hand, Iran's legal victory in the International Court of Justice in 1952, would not be possible without help by two prominent Western scholars: Professor Henri Rolin, former President of the Belgian Senate, who helped the Iranian delegation feverishly and without any compensation, and Sir Arnold McNair, President of the Court, and a British citizen himself who voted and added some reasons in favor of Iran (on why the Court lacked jurisdiction over British complaint).
So we had Iranian thugs and mercenaries on foreign payroll who sabotaged against their own national interest, and we had eminent foreign scholars who went against their own government's desire and sided with a nation in preserving its rights to its natural resources.
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