POL SCI 139 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Tudeh Party Of Iran, Savak, Profit Sharing
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Consolidation of power: 1953: rewarding coup leaders, emergency funding from us, technical assistance from israel and usa. Iran(cid:495)s secret army: used existing laws, created new laws. Intelligentsia: profit sharing with multinational oil consortium. It was a concession to a degree and an end to nationalization project. Increased revenues and led to military expansion: enemies. Marja source of emulation and political quietism was done by priests. Considered this type of government the best form of government. Tudeh is the enemy of private property and islam: the kennedy effect. Kruschev and (cid:494)wars of national liberation(cid:495) 1963. An idea that kennedy saw as a national threat: white revolution (1963) Selling oil to israel: end of political quietism (cid:494)i do not want the present shah to meet the same fate as the old shah(cid:495, explaining khomeini(cid:495)s prior quietism. Spread of marxist thought was a large fear: ayatollah vs shah.
