On this day in 1953, the U.S. and British governments initiated a coup d’état against the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh. Mosaddegh had been preparing to nationalize Iran’s British-owned oil fields.
Mosaddegh had sought to audit the documents of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), later re-named British Petroleum, and to limit the company’s control over Iranian oil reserves. When the AIOC refused to cooperate with the Iranian government, the parliament voted to nationalize Iran’s oil industry and to expel foreign corporate representatives from the country.
In response, the British began a worldwide boycott of Iranian oil to pressure Iran economically and engaged in subterfuge to undermine Mosaddegh’s government.
Judging Mosaddegh to be unreliable and fearing a communist takeover, Winston Churchill and the Eisenhower administration overthrew Iran’s government. The coup action was also supported by the Iranian clergy, who opposed Mosaddegh’s secularism.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) hired mobsters to stage pro-Shah riots and paid people to travel to Tehran and take over the streets of the city. Between 200 and 300 people were killed in the ensuing mayhem.
Mosaddegh was arrested, tried, and convicted of treason by the Shah’s military court. Many of his supporters were imprisoned, several received the death penalty. Mosaddegh himself lived the rest of his life under house arrest, dying in 1967.
After the coup, the Shah ruled as a monarch for the next 26 years until he was overthrown in the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
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i need to quit solo drinking. i need to actually try to do it this time. maybe it would lead into mostly giving up drinking period, but for right now quitting social drinks is just too big of an ask so im starting here. any sober comrades want to chime in with tips? even though i’m not going full sober (yet if ever), i’m sure many of the same tactics apply.
I’m not trying to be sober, and this advice might not be useful at all depending on your employment situation, but I have been effectively sober since I started to work in a bar. I have to drive to work every evening, so I can’t drink during the day, and when I come home I go straight to bed. Also working in a bar makes you realise how annoying it is to deal with drunk people.
What has helped me with any addiction or bad habit is to just fill my day more. Go to the gym, spend free time with friends or on an activity like drawing or writing. I find that using substances comes from boredom and not having any obligations, so fill your free time with fun things and things you have to be sober for.
filling your day more is completely accurate, ive noticed a natural drop off when ive been super absorbed in like a specific video game or something similar like that. the issue is that a lot of the activities i’d use to do this can pair well with drinking, but those associations between the two activities can be broken with practice.
stop yourself at the point of sale, don’t keep it in your home.
Alcohol is expensive! save your money for other things!
yeah this is mad true, its such a steady/stable part of my overhead that i rarely even think about it but id probably save hundreds of dollars a month if i kicked drinking at home
I need to quit drinking too but i’m telling myself i’ll do it next month after i’m used to my new work schedule 😔
mood, there’s so many little tricks we can use to kick the can on addressing this kind of thing. just reading “quit drinking” gives me so much dread homie, ugh i really feel you.
we have some sober chads in the improvement mega, come join us nerd
is it solo drinking if I’m going for the dopamine hit of talking to a bartender who recognizes me
I must meditate on this
lol you know you joke but i didnt consider whether going out to the bar alone counts, i mostly had drinking at home in mind. i dont really do it that much anymore anyway because its way too expensive but i have been known to solo bar.