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Daily Local News
February 23, 2018
Furthermore, as every Iranian schoolchild knows, the 1953 plot to abolish the prime minister and inhibit the nationalization of Iranian petroleum reserves ensued, in which Operation Ajax was launched by the Central Intelligence Agency. The result of western interference? A preponderance of spreadingÃâà...
The Intercept
February 5, 2018
In fact, as I explain in this week's episode of my six-part video series on blowback, the CIA first coined the term in the wake of Operation Ajax — the agency's codename for the coup against Mossadegh. “Possibilities of blowback against the United States should always be in the back of the minds of all CIAÃâà...
New York Times
January 4, 2018
... to the country come from abroad; the belief that the United States wants a change in government is axiomatic. The evidence, as every Iranian schoolchild knows, is the 1953 plot by the Central Intelligence Agency, code-named Operation Ajax, that overthrew Iran's prime minister and re-installed the shah,Ãâà...
Sputnik International
September 20, 2017
Ever since "Operation Ajax" — a 1953 joint effort mounted with British intelligence to overthrow the democratically elected leader of Iran, Mohammed Mossadegh — the CIA has repeatedly sought to oust governments unfavorable to US political and/or economic interests, in the process frequently installingÃâà...
The Conversation UK
July 27, 2017
In 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) organised a coup to oust Iran's democratically elected prime minister, Muhammad Mossadegh. New details about the coup have now emerged after the CIA released a trove of documents regarding the mission named Operation Ajax. It is the first officialÃâà...
Sputnik International
June 24, 2017
Roosevelt, who was in charge of Operation Ajax got in touch with one of the coup leaders, General Fazlollah Zahedi, and instigated mass protests with the assistance of Iranian religious and tribal leaders. Thus, the CIA seized the initiative from Mossadegh and completed the regime change operation.
Foreign Policy (blog)
June 20, 2017
The approximately 1,000 pages of documents also reveal for the first time the details of how the CIA attempted to call off the failing coup — only to be salvaged at the last minute by an insubordinate spy on the ground. Known as Operation Ajax, the CIA plot was ultimately about oil. Western firms had forÃâà...
PopMatters
October 2, 2015
Daniel Burwen and Mike De Seve's Operation Ajax: The Story of the CIA Coup That Remade the Middle East offers a graphic novel presentation of this history, introduced by journalist and historian Stephen Kinzer, on whose bestselling study, All The Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of MiddleÃâà...
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