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The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty (Council on Foreign Relations Books) by
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Michael
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Feels like a valuable primer. Suggests US that Iran (the shah) rightly viewed US as more friendly/principled/helpful than either Britain or USSR late in WWII, which were eager to take its oil wealth (both) and its territory (USSR). That kicking Soviets out of Azerbaijan in 1946 was politically tricky, & was the first real action in the Cold War…
— Mar 10, 2026 01:04AM
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