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The Dig: Iran, 1953-1979. From the Shah to Islamic Revolution

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Ammani and the White Revolution in Iran

Ali Amini was seen as a modernizing figure within the regime. Comments from the Shah very much show that the Shah saw him as such. And this is the Kennedy administration's alliance for progress politics in Latin America? Exactly, which we see as we see a kind of iteration of that in the Iranian context.

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