Female Chess players required to wear Hijabs in Iran

[DogOnPorch]

I think what he is trying to point out is that women didn't used to wear veils in Iran, until dissatisfaction with the corrupt US-backed regime made conditions ripe for the revolution that led to the takeover of the country by religious fanatics. But I might be mistaken.

-k

Queen Farah in particular had a Jackie-O streak to her which wanted to see a modern Westernized Iran. The Shah was pretty much putting the screws to the yahoos in power today. Now we see why...lol.

[BC_chick]

Not sure where you get that from. His father abdicated the throne to him when the British & Soviets both invaded in a joint operation. His position was accepted, but there was also an elected government which the British and Americans overthrew later.

Agreed. CIA declassified information has openly acknowledged America's role Operation Ajax. The British were concerned because the secular Iranian government's vote to nationalize Iran's oil would jeapordizing Britain's control of Iranian oil and the US joined because they were worried that by pulling away from the west, Mossadegh was going eventually fall behind the Iron Curtain. The USSR wanted Mossadegh, Ajax was directly against their interests.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/politics/cia-iran-1953-coup/

[DogOnPorch]

Agreed. CIA declassified information has openly acknowledged America's role Operation Ajax. The British were concerned because the secular Iranian government's vote to nationalize Iran's oil would jeapordizing Britain's control of Iranian oil and the US joined because they were worried that by pulling away from the west, Mossadegh was going eventually fall behind the Iron Curtain. The USSR wanted Mossadegh, Ajax was directly against their interests.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/politics/cia-iran-1953-coup/

Eventually? The Soviets tried to keep Iran post WW2. The UN's very first crisis.

Ajax was only 'declassified' to non-historians.

Just another event in the Cold War...a victory for the West rather than the USSR.