Dinesh D'Souza
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He was selected by the Majli, by the parliament.
He was ultimately appointed by the Shah.
So this is how Mosaddegh came to power.
Now, true, when he came to power, he sort of changed the stripes.
He declared himself a socialist.
He essentially suspended the very parliament that had named him.
And so he was an autocrat.
Yes, the US and the CIA and the British intelligence agencies did push him out.
That's true.
But let's say the Iranian revolution did not immediately follow that at all.
That was 1953.
We have to go all the way now to 1979 when Jimmy Carter came to power.
Jimmy Carter was sort of a human rights guy.
And Jimmy Carter said, listen, the Shah has a secret police.
He's an autocrat.
I'm going to pull the Persian rug out from under him.
And we did.
We ultimately forced the Shah to abdicate, which he did.
This strengthened the hand of the mullahs.
They were also, by the way, being helped by France.