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A large swathe of the population now went further, and began to demand the wholesale nationalisation of the oil industry.
Americans and Europeans rarely ask themselves whether the widespread popular loathing of Western policy in the Middle East might actually be justified. In America, it is the 444-day hostage situation endured by US diplomats in Tehran from 1979 to 1981 that is seen as the outrage of the era, rather than the self-serving and illegal removal of Mossadegh three decades before. The
Egypt’s new ruler, Field Marshal Sisi, is fawned over by the West, who see him as a vital intermediary between Israel and the Palestinians. Without Riyadh’s approval, there would probably be no President Sisi: Egypt is dependent on Saudi money. The
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