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 | | So President Dwight Eisenhower dispatched some familiar American names to do the dirty work for the multinational oil companies: Kermit Roosevelt, Teddy's grandson, was the CIA operative who hired mobs to attack the prime minister's residence, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of Iranians. |
 | | father of Stormin' Norman, the American general who led the 1991 Persian Gulf War, was an old Iran hand who leaned on the shah to issue a decree firing the prime minister, which the shah had no legal authority to do. |
 | | Brimming with cash and weapons, Kermit Roosevelt took about three weeks to topple the democratic leadership of Iran, where upon the shah, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who had days earlier fled the country, was brought back into Iran by the United States. |
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