Quote Originally Posted by Lyle View Post
If you don't understand that Russia would get a huge deal (bargain price oil) by helping Iran while they were blockaded by the British then what can I say....you're a retard.
The USSR have been a net exporter of oil since before WW2. That means they produce more than they use and sell the rest. Iran historically didn't get on too well with Russia and would have made a deal with the Brits rather than deal with the Russians. Iran have to export their oil via the Persian gulf and would have had no alternative but to eventually negotiate. The US didn't wait and overthrew their democratically elected government, then went on an ovethrowing-governments spree in the rest of the world. So this was just one small part of an overarching picture of US imperialism.