![The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-world-has-paid-a-heavy-price-for-the-lack-of-democracy-in-most-of-the-middle.jpg)
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