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Right, I probably should have explained further, I forgot who I was talking to:Oh....
So what you are saying if a country purchases something from another country then they are trying to overthrow it. Interesting theory you have there.
So back to the Shah and USA. The Shah was the leader of a brutal, oppresive regime, who put his critics in jail, and favored the small elite part of iranian population. In short he was a bad guy, and he is a symbol of everything that USA proclaims to fight against. BUT USA still protected him, and threw down those who sought to bring him down and replace his dictatorship with democracy-like conditions. They did this because they didn't want to lose the oil that the Shah was selling to them.
So they were in short trading democracy for oil.