>> Fall of the Shah.
Palavi was affirmed in office by the Western powers in a coup after his PM Mossadegh had the audacity to nationalise oil companies. His being deposed was a natural consequence of his less than benevolent dictatorship and allying himself too closely with the west.
The Ayatollah was invited to return by those the Shah appointed to follow on after illness had left him disabled and disordered. Don't think the French could have stopped him.
Incidentally wasn't Iran and Middle east main subject of the Caribbean summit from which Jim Callaghan was returning when he dropped the 'crisis? what crisis?' bombshell that killed his last hope of staying PM?
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