1953 Iranian coup d'état

3 days ago - Cognito Comics/Verso Books has published a nonfiction graphic novel of the history, Operation AJAX: The Story of the CIA Coup That Remade The Middle East, that covers events leading to how the CIA hired rival mobs to create chaos and overthrow the country. Iranian revolution, the Islamic ...

Through painstaking research into little-studied sources, Rahnema casts new light on how a small group of highly influential pro-Britain politicians and power brokers revisited the realities on the ground with the CIA operatives dispatched to Iran and how they recalibrated a new, and ultimately successful, operational plan. 'Ali Rahnema’s new book on the 1953 coup presents a comprehensive, balanced account of this seminal event.

―Edward Mortimer, author of Faith and Power: The Politics of Islam, on Ervand Abrahamian's A History of Modern Iran "A relevant, readable study of the foreign-engineered 1953 Iranian coup reminds us of the cause that won't go away: oil."

May 28, 2025 - Behind the 1953 Coup in Iran: Thugs, Turncoats, Soldiers, and Spooks is a 2014 book by Ali Rahnema in which the author examines the historical background of 1953 coup in Iran.

He was finally overthrown in August 1953 in a coup d’état organized and led by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, along with British intelligence. This coup initiated a twenty-five-year period of growing dictatorship in Iran, leaving many Iranians resentful of the U.S.—legacies that still haunt relations between the two countries today. This book examines the turbulent political climate that prevailed in Iran during Mosaddeq’s tenure, the confrontation between Iran and Britain for control over Iran’s oil, the strategic considerations that led U.S.

1 week ago - All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror is a non-fiction book by Stephen Kinzer, published in 2003 by Wiley, that centers on the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, an operation orchestrated by the United States and the ...

Book contents · Behind the 1953 Coup in Iran · Behind the 1953 Coup in Iran · Copyright page · Dedication · Contents · Preface and acknowledgements · The coup d’état chronology: from idea to implementation · Introduction · 1 The ...

This book reconstructs the events surrounding the Iranian coup d'état in 1953 that led to the overthrow of Mohammed Mosaddeq and his government.

Washington, D.C., June 15, 2017 – The State Department today released a long-awaited “retrospective” volume of declassified U.S. government documents on the 1953 coup in Iran, including records describing planning and implementation of the covert operation.

In this “well-documented account [that] will become indispensable reading for students of the modern Middle East” (Choice), Abrahamian uncovers little-known documents that challenge conventional interpretations of the coup. Offering “new insights into his history-shattering event” (Reason.com), his riveting account transforms America's understanding of a crucial turning point in modern U.S.-Iran relations. ... In August 1953, the CIA orchestrated the swift overthrow of Iran's democratically elected leader and installed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in his place.

This reading of Henderson goes sharply against many other accounts of his views, which as the crisis unfolded increasingly dismissed the Iranian prime minister as a lunatic. Henderson’s actual opinions about and influence on U.S. policy are one of many elements of the 1953 narrative that are still subject to lively debate. Finally, Paul Nitze’s role in the coup saga has generally received scant attention, although he appears several times in the new FRUS volume published in 2017.

With breezy storytelling and diligent research, Kinzer has reconstructed the CIA's 1953 overthrow of the elected leader of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, who was wildly popular at home for having nationalized his country's oil industry.

The Road to Intervention: Factors Influencing U.S. Policy Toward Iran, 1945–1953

xxiii, 277 pages ; 22 cm "A history of the CIA's 1953 coup in Iran and its aftermath"--Provided by publisher Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264) and index Chronology -- Leading Personalities -- Oil Nationalization -- Anglo-Iranian ...

The Battle for Iran is one of three internal CIA histories of the 1953 coup. The CIA released this version in late 2017 following a Mandatory Declassification Review request by the National Security Archive. It includes substantial portions that had previously been withheld on national security ...

Contents include: "Mosaddeq's Government in Iranian History: Arbitrary Rule, Democracy, and the 1953 Coup" - Homa Katouzian; "Unseating Mosaddeq: The Configuration and Role of Domestic Forces" - Fakhreddin Azimi; "The 1953 Coup in Iran and the ...

February 22, 2018 - But while historians and journalists see the coup of 19 August 1953 as a pivotal event for Iran, they agree on little else (including the transliteration of his name into Latin letters). The central point at issue in a flurry of books published in recent years is whether the overthrow of Mossadegh led somehow to the Islamic Revolution 26 years later.

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August 19, 2015 - In The Coup: 1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern US-Iran Relations, published in 2013, Abrahamian paints a picture of Mossadegh as a well-meaning, slightly naive man, “an Iranian version of a nineteenth-century Whig”, who was badly out ...

The Secret CIA History of the Iran Coup, 1953