How did Iran play a role in the early Cold War? (IT'S NOT C) Iran was decolonized right after WWII, leading to competition for influence of the two new superpowers.
Allied pressure caused the removal of Soviet troops, who had attempted to secure access to oil, from Iran.
Iran cared little for either superpower but tried to secretly gain economic advantages from both of them.
The need for oil was growing, so NATO leaders pressured Iran to join the military partnership.

Anagnos: . . it will no doubt be difficult for you there, annie. but it has been difficult for you at our school too, hm? gratifying, yes, when you came to us and could not spell your name, to accomplish so much here in a few years, but always an irish battle. for independence. (he studies annie, humorously; she does not open her eyes.) this is my last time to counsel you, annie, and you do lack some – by some i mean all – what, tact or talent to bend. to others. and what had saved you on more than one occasion here at perkins is that there was nowhere to expel you to. what do anagnos's words reveal about annie in this excerpt