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  • Harsher in Hindsight: As she's trying to explain how important it is to establish good relations with a friendly regime in Bukistan, Effie mentions Real Life countries Iraq and Iran and how "we're going to have to learn to pronounce Mosaddegh." Mohammad Mosaddegh, president of Iran who had the effrontery to nationalize Iran's oil industry, was toppled in a coup by people like Ellie (specifically, the CIA and MI6), just two months after this movie was released, sparking violence and repression first under the Shah and then under the ayatollahs that has lasted ever since.

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