Professor of English Literature and Orientalism Mohammad Marandi highlighted a pivotal moment in Iranian history in tonight's episode of Demystifying Iran. In 1951, the late "democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh nationalized the country’s oil, ending decades of British stranglehold," Professor Marandi states. However, he miscalculated, confronting a hidden alliance of British-American imperial interests determined to undermine Iranian sovereignty. As Marandi explained, Operat