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| Religious & Secular Values Clash in Iran | ||||||||||||||
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| Throughout the Middle East, wealth from the oil industry fueled a growing conflict between traditional Islamic values & modern Western materialism. In no country did the clash between cultures erupt more dramatically than in the former Persia, or Iran. | ||||||||||||||
| After the Second World War, Iran's leader, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, embraced Western governments & wealthy Western oil companies. Angry Iranian nationalists resented these foreign alliances. They united under the leadership of Prime Minister Muhammed Mossaddeq. They seized and nationalized a British-owned oil company and, in 1953, forced the shah to flee. Fearing that Mossaddeq might turn to the Soviets for support, the U.S. had him arrested & then restored shah to power. | ||||||||||||||
| Map of Iran | ||||||||||||||