updated Mon. December 11, 2023
-
Al-Arabiya
January 23, 2018
If this was so, why did Iranians rise against the Shah's regime in 1952, forcing him out of Iran in support of a national government led by Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh? The escaped Shah returned to power through a coup engineered by the US and UK coup in 1953. Indeed, he was a US puppet until 1979,ÃÂ ...
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
January 14, 2018
Iranian students overtook our embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. The memory of the 1953 coup has continued to haunt older Iranians wary of U.S. covert intentions. Iranian opportunists and religious leaders have used the incident to continue their anti-American andÃÂ ...
LobeLog
January 12, 2018
In American eyes Iran, almost by its very existence, remains a deep geopolitical affront. It humiliated the US in holding American hostages for 444 days starting in November 1979. (Grounds for Iranian anger—the US/UK 1953 coup against Iran's first democratically elected government that put the Shah backÃÂ ...
The Detroit News
January 12, 2018
And Pahlavi's father was hardly a paragon of democracy, ruling lavishly and repressively, and benefiting from a CIA-supported 1953 coup of Iran's prime minster. While many of the young faces in today's crowds of protesters couldn't conceivably have been born when the last shah still ruled, PahlaviÃÂ ...
Haaretz
January 11, 2018
And Pahlavi's father was hardly a paragon of democracy, ruling lavishly and repressively, and benefiting from a CIA-supported 1953 coup of Iran's prime minster. While many of the young faces in today's crowds of protesters couldn't conceivably have been born when the last shah still ruled, PahlaviÃÂ ...
San Francisco Chronicle
January 9, 2018
And Pahlavi's father was hardly a paragon of democracy, ruling lavishly and repressively, and benefiting from a CIA-supported 1953 coup of Iran's prime minster. While many of the young faces in today's crowds of protesters couldn't conceivably have been born when the last shah still ruled, PahlaviÃÂ ...
Newsweek
January 4, 2018
Iran has always, going back to the 1953 coup against Mossadegh, looked to outsiders,” Benjamin Radd, a professor of political science at UCLA who focuses on the Middle East, told Newsweek about Montazeri's comments. “Iranians have always believed in conspiracy theories and a hidden hand pullingÃÂ ...
NBCNews.com
January 4, 2018
Indeed, America's history in Iran, as Obama recognized, is fraught with suspicion and downright resentment, from the 1953 coup against Mossadeq to U.S. support for the Shah's secret police. While most Iranians are far too young to even remember the Shah, they do remain suspicious of U.S. intentions.
Yeni Şafak English
January 3, 2018
Seen by Iranians as the puppet of the coup planners, the Shah had been ruling his country with an iron fist since 1953; he imprisoned and murdered tens of thousands of Iranians with the intelligence agency SAVAK that he founded and closed his eyes to the poverty of his people as he handed Iran to theÃÂ ...
TIME
January 2, 2018
It was concerned about enabling Iranian authorities to exploit longstanding suspicions of the U.S., dating back to American and British support for a 1953 coup toppling Iran's elected prime minister. Ben Rhodes, Obama's former deputy national security adviser, said “too much ownership” of the protests byÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 2, 2018
For American liberals, it usually goes back to the C.I.A.-supported 1953 coup against the Iranian prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh. That is the paralyzing original sin that limits the possibilities of American action or even strong rhetoric. Harry Truman's ultimatum to the Soviets to leave Iran after WorldÃÂ ...
Newsweek
January 2, 2018
GettyImages-160316677 Persian soldiers chase rioters during civil unrest in Tehran, August 1953. On August 19, 1953, democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh was overthrown in a coup orchestrated by the CIA and British intelligence, after having nationalized the oil industry.
BBC News
December 31, 1999
Following a CIA-orchestrated coup in 1953 which ousted Iran's democratically-elected prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi assumed absolute power and became a close ally of the US and Western powers. He was ousted in an uprising in 1979 by the late AyatollahÃÂ ...
Tablet Magazine
December 31, 1999
While persecution of Jews had existed in pre-Islamic Iran, the worst of it began with the Safavids' adoption of Shia Islam as the state religion at the .... The Tudeh party was active in Iranian politics until the 1953 CIA-orchestrated coup to overthrow Prime Minister Mosaddeq and reinstate the Shah, after whichÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
December 31, 1999
Bombs went off. Army commanders were suborned, lavish bribes handed out. The 1953 coup went perfectly. Mossadegh was ousted with backing from the Army and Savak. Iran's oil remained safe in western hands. The successful Iran uprising became the template for future 'color revolutions' in Georgia,ÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
December 31, 1999
Despite (or, rather, because of) a virulently anti-American regime, Iranians are generally less anti-American than other populations in the Middle East. One thing Iranians, whatever their politics, will be aware of is American involvement in the 1953 coup against the country's democratically elected primeÃÂ ...
Al-Arabiya
November 25, 2017
... visual backdrop for the overthrow in 1953 of Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh in a US-sponsored coup. A quarter of a century later and he would be snapping dramatic images of the Iranian Revolution -- he was on the plane which took the Ayatollah Khomeini back to Iran in February 1979.
iNews
November 16, 2017
Before the Iranian revolution of 1979, Britain and Iran had relatively close relations, with Britain offering support to the Persian state in exchange for concessions in sectors such as oil and banking. The relationship was bumpy at times: in 1953, Britain urged the CIA to carry out a coup against the ...
Middle East Eye
November 13, 2017
This impression was reinforced in the 20th century by the UK's control of the Iranian oil industry and concerted British attempts to block oil nationalisation. The UK's central role in the August 1953 coup that overthrew Iran's first democratically elected government, led by the nationalist prime minister ...
Fabius Maximus website (blog)
November 10, 2017
In fact, focused as it was on the disputed nationalisation of Iranian oil and issues relating to prospective US economic and security assistance to Iran, the earlier volume essentially ignored the central episode of that period: the coup, ... {In early 1953} the planning of the coup shifted into a new gear.
Washington Examiner
November 9, 2017
Namely, the assertion that because of its role in the 1953 Mosaddegh coup, the U.S. must always make special concessions to win Iranian trust. Here Iran wants to spread the belief that it is the revolutionary republic that has been offended by U.S. aggression and not the other way around. Of course, it's bull ...
The Atlantic
October 10, 2017
Iranians live in a troubled and unstable region. ... overthrow the legitimate and democratic government of Iran in 1953—provided the fodder ... in the war in Syria, and supported a military coup against an elected government in ...
Salon
October 8, 2017
Iran cannot be forgiven for overthrowing the dictator installed by Washington in a military coup in 1953, a coup that destroyed Iran's ...
Iran Focus
October 3, 2017
They also address the 1953 coup in which the US replaced Iran's elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh with the Shah Mohammad ...
The Cipher Brief
October 2, 2017
For example, when Washington backed the 1953 coup that replaced Iran's elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh with the Shah ...
Fair Observer
September 28, 2017
He has written several articles about the Middle East in Iranian newspapers, including Shargh, ... The 1953 coup in Iran is a key example.
Politico
September 18, 2017
Many Iranians, still smarting over a 1953 U.S.-backed coup in their country, are averse to even a hint of interference from Washington. And the ...
Middle East Online
September 17, 2017
The 1953 coup in Iran that toppled popular leftwing Prime Minister ... he sought to nationalise Iran's oil reserves, restored pro-Western Shah ...
teleSUR English
June 29, 2017
Newly released documents by the United States Department of State provide an inside look at the motivations and tactics used by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in orchestrating the 1953 coup in Iran that toppled the democratically elected government of former Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
June 20, 2017
Declassified documents released last week shed light on the Central Intelligence Agency's central role in the 1953 coup that brought down Iranian Prime Minister Muhammad Mossadegh, fueling a surge of nationalism which culminated in the 1979 Iranian Revolution and poisoning U.S.-Iran relations into ...
Press TV
December 31, 1999
“Iran has long been regarded by US leaders, and by US media ... coup in 1953, a coup that destroyed Iran's parliamentary regime and its ...
Newsweek
July 28, 2017
In 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) organized a coup to oust Iran's democratically elected prime minister, Muhammad Mossadegh.
Al-Monitor
July 24, 2017
The Iranian TV series “Shahrzad,” which has gripped the attention of Iranians ... The historical and romantic drama series takes place in the wake of the 1953 coup ... In 1993, Iran's Supreme Council of the Cultural RevolutionÃÂ ...
Democracy Now!
July 24, 2017
... The Coup: 1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian ... oil contracts played a key role in the U.S.-backed 1953 coup in Iran that ledÃÂ ...
New York Times
July 20, 2017
The Iranians say Mr. Trump is in danger of violating the agreement, ... anger Iranians — like the 1953 coup aided by the C.I.A. that ousted Iran'sÃÂ ...
EJ Insight
July 13, 2017
The 1953 Iranian coup is an important chapter in the CIA's history, as it was the first ever time the agency succeeded in toppling a foreignÃÂ ...
LobeLog
July 12, 2017
New Details on the 1953 Coup in Iran ... the coup, in which a team of CIA officers worked with certain Iranians to overthrow Iran's popular primeÃÂ ...
Daily Review
March 25, 2017
More often, we know about the efforts of the CIA because their plans were successful. In 1953, for example, the CIA helped orchestrate a coup in Iran. 25 years later, anti-American sentiment drove the Iranian Revolution and the rise of the Ayatollah ...
Center for Research on Globalization
March 23, 2017
Yet its secular, progressive and democratic government (under the leadership of Mohammad Mosaddegh) was overthrown in 1953, in a CIA-backed coup. What followed was the monstrosity ... Instead of falling on its knees and begging for mercy, Iran defied ...
AlterNet
March 22, 2017
One such subject was Iran, an oil-rich nation where the CIA backed a coup in 1953, toppling the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh at the bequest of international oil corporations.
Morning Star Online
March 22, 2017
In 1953, the US and British overthrew Iran's parliamentary government, led by prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh.
Global Times
March 21, 2017
Iranian-American Arash Saedinia (right) browses for music at the Music Box along Westwood Boulevard, Los Angeles, on March 15.
Consortium News
March 21, 2017
Iran's Princess Ashraf, the strong-willed twin sister of the Iran's long-time ruler, had gone from wielding immense behind-the-scenes clout in the ancient nation of Persia to living in exile - albeit a luxurious one.
UC Berkeley
March 20, 2017
It was at Berkeley that he first learned about the 1953 Iranian coup, orchestrated by the U.S. and British governments, to safeguard the West's oil interests in the country.
Hindustan Times
March 20, 2017
Yet they are still "demonized," says Keshavarz, even though many were forced to flee their homeland in the first place because of Iran's CIA-backed 1953 coup. "Whatever you do you are not viewed as being an American, not treated like one, and it's ...
Huffington Post India
March 16, 2017
This idealism, however, routinely failed the Cold War stress-test as both Washington and Moscow sabotaged a slew of foreign governments to satisfy economic or ideological interests.
Lawrence Journal World
March 15, 2017
Compare the charges against Obama with our history of overtly overthrowing democratically elected leaders in Iran, Chile, Guatemala, and the assasination of Congo's leader.
Morning Star Online
March 14, 2017
The impressive voice acting and engaging and varied cast of characters all help capture the intricacies of the Iranian revolution over some two hours.
AllAfrica.com
March 11, 2017
Mosaddeq was replaced with the Shah of Iran, an American stooge and a dictator but who was kept in power by the US until 1979 when the Iranian revolution led by the Ayatollas swept off the American stooge. The US has not forgiven Iran till today for ...
Scroll.in
March 11, 2017
Faiz Ahmed Faiz's poem Irani Talaba ke Naam (For the Students of Iran) is a tribute to these young Iranian protestors.
