The Iranian parliament has approved a bill calling on the government to take legal action against the United States for its role in the 1953 coup in Tehran. The bill, passed on August 27, calls for “political and legal investigation” into the coup that toppled Iran’s democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh. Iranian news […]
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CIA Admits It Was Behind Iran’s Coup
Well that only took six decades. The CIA has finally admitted its participation in a 1953 coup that ousted Iran’s prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The U.S.- and British-orchestrated coup influenced years of anti-American sentiment. Now, almost 60 years to the day later, the CIA released a version of “The Battle for Iran” internal […]
Aftershocks Of Iran’s 1953 Coup Still Felt Around The World, 60 Years Later
Sixty years ago, on August 15, 1953, Iranian military officers backed by U.S. and British intelligence agencies initiated a coup d’etat whose aftershocks can still be felt around the globe. The coup toppled Iran’s first democratically elected government and its popular prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, and is widely credited with fueling the hostility against […]
Iranian court sentences ‘CIA agent’ to death
Report : GuardianIran has sentenced an American citizen to death and reports have emerged that the country has started enriching uranium underground in a show of defiance of western sanctions.