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The coup of 1953 was a disaster for the political development of Iran. It derailed the natural evolution of Iran towards a constitutional republic with broad participation from the masses.
Only a free society wherein each individual is free to express himself or herself can collectively aspire to discovering the next level of its national consciousness. Freedom is an essential pre-requisite to human progress. The real tragedy of coups, dictatorships, despotic kingships and colonization is that they scuttle the natural evolution of societies, suppress ideas and retard human progress.
The coup of 1953 was a disaster for the political development of Iran. It derailed the natural evolution of Iran towards a constitutional republic with broad participation from the masses. After the coup, the nationalists were arrested, put on trial, executed or put under house arrest. At the other end of the political spectrum, the communists were decimated. Some of them went under-ground or coalesced around the Tudeh party where they continued to receive covert support from the Soviet Union. This left the political arena open for a frontal confrontation between the monarchists and the religious right.
The monarchists were backed by American might but the religious right had the advantage of tradition and history, for it has been true that while most of Islamic history is the story of kings and conquerors, Islam itself looks askance at monarchical and dynastic rule. It is to protect themselves from a curved hook from the religious flank that Muslim kings and despots often found it convenient to call themselves Amir, Amir ul Mo’mineen, Khalifa or Imam rather than king, a ruse that continues to this day. The Shah promised the Iranians riches of the world with the corruption that is inherent in any such human endeavor. The religious right promised them justice and the hereafter. The long term outcome of such a battle should be obvious to a student of history.
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