Deborah Kerr Explains U.S. Foreign Policy, 1953

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"Here's Bhukistan. Here's the United States. We have just one thing in common. Oil. Every plan we've made for peace or war depends on that oil. I don't have to tell you what happened in Iran. Half the free world had to learn how to pronounce Mossaddeq.
Well, the same thing's happening again only this time there'll be lots of new names to learn. And the only way we can get that oil is to get those names on the dotted line."

-- Deborah Kerr in her role as a U.S. State Department official in the 1953 film Dream Wife. The film was released shortly after the CIA-backed coup in Iran that deposed the freely-elected Mohammad Mossaddeq (who wanted to nationalize oil) in favor of the Shah, who sold cheap oil to the U.S. and Britain.

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For the inside story on the 1953 coup in Iran -
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB126/index.htm