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QUICK REVIEW 1. Iran had been a monarchy since antiquity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monarchs_of_Iran 2. And then the last Shah of Iran was at minimum deeply divisive : secret police, repression, unpopular economic & social changes rapid-fired from the top (sound familiar)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi 3. He tried to nationalize Iran's oil infrastructure, which led to the CIA giving the theocratic, brutally repressive Islamic Revolution its victory in 1979 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution