Iran/1953 coup d'état
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| Date | 1953 - Present |
|---|---|
| Location | Iran |
| Perpetrators | CIA, MI6, Seven Sisters |
| Interest of | Norman Darbyshire, Charlotte Denett, Ann Lambton, Monty Woodhouse |
| Description | The first large scale regime change carried out by the CIA. |
Official narrative
The official narrative was for many years that MI6 and the CIA had nothing to do with the coup. As news leaked out, this changed, and nowadays the story is that it was "covertly organised by MI6 and the CIA"[1].
Problems
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.[2]
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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