EVENT INFORMATION

19
Ougùstùs
1953

A US- and UK-backed coup removes Mosaddegh

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📅 19 Ougùstùs 1953 📍 Iran

A covert operation organized by US and British intelligence, with Iranian participants, helped overthrow Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh after the nationalization crisis. Declassified records document Washington’s role. Iranian politics cannot be reduced to foreign orchestration: domestic actors, institutions, and competing interests were central.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Mohammad Mosaddegh

Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi

Kermit Roosevelt Jr.

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Iran

CIA

MI6

National Front