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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting

from Providence, Rhode Island. This is episode three of our four-part series on the history of

modern Iran, with Eskondar Sadiqi, Boregierdi, and Gulnar Nikpor. We pick up where the last episode

left off. In the wake of the U.S. British orchestrated 1953 coup against Prime Minister Mohamed Mosideg,

a coup carried out because Iran had dared to nationalize the Anglo-Aranian oil company.

The result was the reinstallation of Muhammad Reza Shah as dictator in all but name.

The Shah picked up where he had left off, this time with his nationalist opponents in the

national front and communist opponents in Tudet crushed. Back in power, the Shah intensified

the construction of a more profoundly authoritarian and repressive regime, a regime that would be

a key pillar of U.S. power in the region. That intensified repression, however, was complemented

by a grand attempt at manufacturing consent, which accelerated in 1963 with the launching of

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