A Brief Documentary

The long-hidden truth about American relations with the Iran, circa 1956 (for the record, the guy in the orange suit is British):


Well, what could possibly go wrong?






SPOILER ALERT: That wasn't really Pete Trask, but a lousy commie double. Pete comes to Iran, sorts out the red nogoodnik, and convinces Mir Reza of his bona fides. Mir Reza signs the oil treaty "then and there." And the United States and Iran were friends forever...

A very slightly alternate universe was present in T-Man #31 (1956). No pigs were harmed in the production of this post.