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Blue Full Moon

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6. This is why
Wed Mar 11, 2026, 10:46 AM
Wednesday

British Petroleum, royal family and the CIA. (George HW Bush) don't care if the CIA denied it of course they would.
Mohammad Mosaddegh's administration introduced a range of social and political measures such as social security, land reforms and higher taxes including the introduction of taxation on the rent of land. His time as prime minister was marked by the clash with the British government, known as the Abadan Crisis, following the nationalisation of the Iranian oil industry, which had been built by the British on Persian lands since 1913 through the Anglo-Persian Oil Company later known as British Petroleum

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