Explore how the United States has used secret regime-change operations from Iran’s 1953 coup to Venezuela’s 2026 intervention ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pro-monarchy rioters take to the streets of Tehran in August 1953. - Intercontinentale/AFP/Getty Images Since Israel began its ...
Relations between the United States and Iran have been fraught for decades – at least since the U.S. helped overthrow a democracy-minded prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, in August 1953. The U.S.
We didn’t remove Iran’s Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953 or Chile’s Salvador Allende in 1973.
Journalism has often been called the first rough draft of history. If at all true, then American press coverage of Iran, which began in earnest 70 years ago, has never gotten past the incomplete, ...
For decades following the dramatic overthrow in August 1953 of Mohammad Mossadegh, Iran’s revered prime minister, Americans and Britons were led to believe that his toppling was the result not of CIA ...
Oil fields: In 1953, the US helped stage a coup to overthrow Iran’s democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh. He had pledged to nationalize the country’s oil fields – a move the US and ...
While the CIA and the ayatollahs agree about America’s role in subverting democracy, it’s a false narrative — one that’s ...
Teheran’s new government last week gave its people the first inkling of how much Mohammed Mossadegh’s “victory” over the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. had cost the country. ¶ Normal oil revenues lost in the ...