Iran/1953 coup d'état

 Iran/1953 coup d'état (coup)

Interest of	Norman Darbyshire, Charlotte Denett, Ann Lambton, Monty Woodhouse

This coup is often referred to as "covertly organised by MI6 and the CIA", Charlotte Dennett notes that the 1953 Coup in Iran was planned since 1951 and so the role of the Seven Sisters should not be underestimated.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
1951	“The oil cartel or deep state initiated in 1951 a process [to remove Mossadeq from power] that the American public state only authorised [through the CIA] two years later”	Peter Dale Scott	2015
Bilderberg/1954	“Americans saw that firm Western action in Persia, Berlin, and Korea had produced successful results and they therefore believed in continuing a firm policy.”		1954
Iran	“Two years after Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh nationalized Iran’s oil industry that had been controlled by the company now known as British Petroleum a coup happened in Iran. “If nationalisation in Iran of oil was successful, this would set a terrible example to other countries where U.S. oil interests were present,” explains Ervand Abrahamian, Iranian historian and author of Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup d’Etat and The Coup: 1953, The CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations. While the CIA has historically taken credit for Mosaddegh’s overthrow, “the British have not admitted their leading role,” notes Iranian filmmaker Taghi Amirani, whose documentary film Coup 53 uncovers the influence of MI6 agents who sought to preserve their imperial-era access to Iranian oil and pulled in the Americans by promising a “slice.” Seventy years later, says Amirani, “We are still living with the ripples of this disastrous event”	Democracy Now!	2023

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:The Coup in Iran 1953	book extract	12 February 2007	Mark Curtis

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