that mosedef will be replaced. if it goes with you, so much the better. if it does not, then you will be looking for a job elsewhere. and he eventually was persuaded to go along with it. >> so professor, when you look at that crisis, before we move on to the other two, when you look at that crisis, what kind of attitude did that help to develop among the iranians toward the west? >> specifically towards the united states -- the iranians traditionally had a very pessimistic view toward the british. the british, after all, had participated in dividing the country into spheers spheres of influence in the early 20th century. they were part of the race for resources within iran. they took a very lucrative oil confession back in the early 20th century, essentially bought it for nothing and continued their control over iran's one resource that it had, and dictated terms to the iranians. for example, back in the 30's, the iranians said, you know, we should renegotiate this, and we want to take a look at the books of this company which operates here in iran. and t