Why did Mohammad Mosaddeq hate the West?

Answer 1

Mossaddeq did not hate the West, he was a Iranian nationalist who believed in democracy for Iran; his main issue was with Great Britain over Iranian oil. Great Britain had been granted a monopoly over Iranian oil in the south of Iran decades before and were making incredibly large profits while sharing 0.00001% of the profits with the Iranian government, exploiting Iranian workers, and refusing to even reveal their financial bookkeeping. Mossaddeq saw the nation's impoverished masses suffering and he beleived that it was time to end GB's Imperial exploitation of Iran, so he nationalized Iranian oil, and took the monopoly away from GB's oil company Anglo-Iranian Oil (now called British Petroleum or BP). GB was enraged and took Iran to the UN court and lost, and as a result GB started a boycott of Iranian oil and a blockade to prevent oil from leaving Iran, and convinced the USA to help overthrow Mossaddeq (and Iran's democracy in favor of the pro-western Shah). Mossaddeq never waivered in his principles and was sometime seen as stubborn and shrewd, but he did NOT hate the West. He admired the USA's democracy, he simply believed GB's exploitation of Iran had to end, and it cost him his and his nation its freedom.