The 1943 Tehran Conference, where Allied leaders discussed dividing up the postwar world, sparked Orwell’s initial idea for the book as a warning about unchecked state #power.
For decades, British Petroleum (then the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company) had extracted Iran’s wealth, leaving the Iranian people with little to show for it. Mossadegh’s move was a bid for sovereignty, dignity, and the right of a nation to control its own resources. The response from the so-called “free world” was swift and brutal: a joint CIA-MI6 operation, code-named Operation Ajax, orchestrated a coup to overthrow Mossadegh, using black propaganda, bribed politicians, manufactured riots, (2/11)
In 1953, Iran had a democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, who committed what, in the eyes of the British Empire and the United States, was an unforgivable sin: he nationalized Iran’s oil industry.
WTAF, these geniuses had a front business siphoning off taxpayer dollars like parasites, but that wasn’t enough, they had to attempt robbery and assault?
Was this done as a perimeter test for what the public will tolerate, ignore, forgive when it comes to pardons?
Students are shutting down when confronted with ideas they don’t understand; they struggle to get through challenging texts like they used to; they can’t stay focused on even a sonnet. “It’s not that they don’t want to do the reading,” Horowitch writes, “it’s that they don’t know how.”
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