The Tudeh Party's Media Positions Regarding Truman's Four-Point Aid to Iran During the Mossadegh Administration

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1 Economic documents expert at the National Archives and Library of Iran.

2 Faculty of History, Documentation Research Institute, National Library and Archives Organization of Iran

10.48308/irhj.2025.238482.1396

Abstract

With the beginning of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was in a fierce confrontation with the United States as a symbol of imperialism. The Soviets viewed economic support and the dispatch of Principle Four experts to Iran as an act against the Soviet Union and in line with the promotion of capitalist values. This perception was influenced by the ideological and geopolitical confrontation between communism and the capitalist world. Therefore, supporters of communism in Iran had to make conditions so difficult for American experts that they resigned and left Iran. The Tudeh Party, the most important force supporting communism in Iran, was concerned about the expansion of American influence in Iran and considered Truman's Principle Four assistance a threat to itself and Iran's national security. The question of this research, which is presented with a descriptive-analytical method and based on unpublished documents and press, is: What positions did the Tudeh Party, whose goals were in line with Soviet policies, adopt towards the American Principle Four experts during the prime ministership of Dr. Mossadegh, and how is the impact of these positions on the change in the approach of the US government to provide Principle Four aid to Iran assessed?

Based on the findings, the Tudeh Party, aligned with the global policy of communism, opposed the expansion of American influence and opposed Principle Four aid and the American way of life in its affiliated publications. By creating strikes and various tactics of media sabotage in line with its goals, this party tried to make the American aid program appear as a yoke on the shoulders of the Iranians, which was presented by spies pretending to be advisors, in order to both limit the Mossadegh government and reduce or neutralize the actions of American experts

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