The secret deal that broke the Shah's oil price | THE SHAH WAS RIGHT — Part 4

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December 1976: Saudi Arabia splits OPEC in two — a counter-attack designed in Washington (documented in Andrew Scott Cooper's "The Oil Kings"). Then the story machine: Amnesty's charge, numbers that grew with each retelling — the revolution wrote 60,000 martyrs into its constitution; its own researcher later counted about 3,000 — and a broadcaster Iranians nicknamed "Ayatollah BBC." Then Guadeloupe, the refusal to fire, the kneeling officer, and a dying king's fifty-year wager — paid early. Part 4 — The Turn. Watch this story from Part 1. Some scenes are cinematic reconstructions of documented events. All quotes, dates, and sources are historically verified. #history #iran #shah #shorts #documentary