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Well I think I did make factual claims, but I definitely didn't justify them to a sufficient extent. Here are a couple of books which develop the only possibly contentious claim, that the U.S. and U.K. backed overthrow of Mossadegh led inexorably to the Islamic revolution:
https://www.amazon.com/Iranians-Persia-Islam-Soul-Nation/dp/0452275636
https://www.amazon.com/All-Shahs-Men-American-Middle/dp/047018549X/ref=pd_rhf_dp_s_cp_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=047018549X&pd_rd_r=5WBGQ1NQ4PDPSE4R8MQQ&pd_rd_w=fJdqr&pd_rd_wg=rOgoA&psc=1&refRID=5WBGQ1NQ4PDPSE4R8MQQ
I apologise that I can't really go into depth on this topic myself; frankly I'm not knowledgeable enough to come close to doing the argument justice, and I have simply drawn my conclusions from the existing available scholarship, such as the above.
It should be noted, however, that this is not a particularly controversial position; I'm not a historian and haven't studied history beyond the undergraduate level, or modern history at all, but as far as I'm aware there aren't many academic sources that would contradict the claim that the overthrow of Mossadegh and the subsequent perception of the Shah as a Western lapdog were significant contributing factors to the revolution of '79.