Well, if we are looking for the "full context", please remember what triggered the 1953 coup: The Anglo-Persian Oil Company, after a period of great difficulty and fruitless exploration (they nearly gave up on ever finding oil in Iran and had burned through their cash), finally struck oil in 1908, and single-handedly turned Iran into a major producer. Mossadegh thanked them by attempting forced nationalization of their company, with broad public support. It is probably the case that AIOC (formerly APOC, now BP) should have offered Iran a better deal by 1951. In any case, anti-western feeling led to the 1953 coup, not the other way round. Mike