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Neos Kosmos
April 15, 2018
... East that have led to the catastrophes of today – of the 1953 Iranian coup d'etat (28 Mordad coup – کودتای ۲۸ مرداد Ãâì– in Farsi) where the democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown by a joint plot by the UK secret service (Operation 'Boot') and the CIA (Operation Ajax).
Daily Sabah
April 12, 2018
Even though British policy did not allow American companies to delaminate eastern Arabian borders, it had accepted U.S. companies' entrance into Iranian oil after 1952, which was one of the reasons leading to the ouster of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953 with Operation Ajax.
Citizen Truth
April 10, 2018
... of Operation Mockingbird was to cover up covert and often illegal foreign operations, including the 1954 overthrowing of the democratic government of President Arbenz in Guatamala. The operation also helped cover up the overthrowing of the democratic Iranian government in 1953 (Operation Ajax) andÃâà...
Fabius Maximus website (blog)
April 8, 2018
Infidels whose CIA in 1953 overthrew their democratically elected government (Operation Ajax) to prevent it nationalizing Iran's oil reserves. The CIA installed the Shah, who gave favorable treatment to western oil companies and whose secret police (SAVAK) crushed all opposition. Even in exile – leavingÃâà...
Being Libertarian
April 4, 2018
For example, the United States covertly orchestrated “Operation Ajax”, which catalyzed to the overthrowing of the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosadegh, in 1953 and the ascension of the military dictatorship of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, which lasted until 1979. An example in Africa of U.S.Ãâà...
Lankaweb
April 3, 2018
Operation AJAX in Iran to topple the democratically elected Mossadeq in 1952 -53 & replaced with a dictator Shah. Operation MK-ULTRA – brainwashing program on mind control by giving LSD & other drugs to American subjects without their knowledge. Funded partly by Rockefeller & Ford Foundations.
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...
Tehran Times
August 19, 2017
Known as Operation Ajax, the coup was carried out after an earlier coup attempt failed to overthrow Mosaddegh and install General Fazlollah Zahedi, the shah's reliable ally, as prime minister. As a result, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran, had fled to Baghdad. Days before the first coup attempt,Ãâà...
Newsweek
July 28, 2017
But the CIA agent running Operation Ajax, Kermit Roosevelt (grandson of Teddy), was undeterred. He decided to ignore his instructions and proceed with the coup regardless. Relying on networks established by British intelligence services, the CIA initiated a wave of propaganda and paid-for protests thatÃâà...
The Conversation UK
July 27, 2017
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 official admission by the spy agency of the part it played in directing the coup. Official admission aside, America's role in the event has long been recognisedÃâà...
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
Known as Operation Ajax, the CIA plot was ultimately about oil. Western firms had for decades controlled the region's oil wealth, whether Arabian-American Oil Company in Saudi Arabia, or the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in Iran. When the U.S. firm in Saudi Arabia bowed to pressure in late 1950 and agreedÃâà...
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...
Middle East Monitor
July 9, 2015
A new graphic novel Operation Ajax, to which he has contributed the foreword, helps to fill this information gap. In a series of comic strips author Mark Seve and illustrator Daniel Burwen reconstruct events that led up to the CIA's first successful regime-change operation – removing Iran's democraticallyÃâà...
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