An Iranian-Led Coup Still Needed America’s Help

Argument Despite revisionist claims, documents show the critical U.S. role in Mosaddeq’s fall.

August 19, 2023, 8:30 AM

The August 1953 coup in Iran is traditionally seen as the most significant episodes of the early Cold War, a landmark in U.S. covert interventions in the Global South, and a watershed moment in the political history of modern Iran. While the United States supported the operation to unseat prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq and replace him with a new government led by Iran’s shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi , revisionist scholars such as historian Ray Takeyh and Darioush Bayandor , a former Iranian […]

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