support for the takeover, it would be “very hard, perhaps even impossible”, for the Imam Khomeini to oppose the takeover, and this would paralyze the Bazargan administration Khoeiniha and the students wanted to eliminate.[36]

Iranians stated that their motivation was fear of another American backed coup against their popular revolution, as was done in 1953. They claimed that in 1953, the American embassy acted as a “den of spies” from which the American coup was organized. Documents were later found in the embassy suggesting that some workers in the embassy were working with American intelligence agencies. After the Shah’s entry into the United States, the Ayatollah Khomeini called for street demonstrations. On November 4, 1979, one such demonstration, organized by Iranian student unions loyal to Khomeini, took place outsidewas a constitutional monarchy set up with an elected prime minister. In 1950 Mosaddegh was elected PM. He was continually trying to get the Shah to nationalize the oil companies in Iran. These companies were controlled by Britain, not the US. The Shah was against such action for two reasons, 1) he said there were contracts, and 2) that the country did not have the skilled people to run the oil field. Mosaddegh was removed as was the shah power, only briefly and reenstated because the successor was more incompetant than Mosaddegh. He continued trying to nationalize the oil, the british navy blockaded the coastline, mosaddegh tried seizing more powers than the law entitled him to have. In 1953 the British came to the US asking for help