1953 CIA Overthrow of Iranian Government

[Fluery]

Hi guys!

I’m going to be writing a paper on the CIA overthrow of the democratically elected Iranian government in favor of the shah, and how this affected international and especially USA politics.

I have most of the basic research down, but I’m looking for some analysis of the events, or another look at them.

Could anybody point me in the direction of some articles or chapters from a book?

Thanks!

[Prateek_Sanjay]

It was the first move of western democratic nations to start sponsoring false flag attacks and false flag operations.

http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/155/25954.html

The history says agency officers orchestrating the Iran coup worked directly with royalist Iranian military officers, handpicked the prime minister’s replacement, sent a stream of envoys to bolster the shah’s courage, directed a campaign of bombings by Iranians posing as members of the Communist Party, and planted articles and editorial cartoons in newspapers.

But on the night set for Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh’s overthrow, almost nothing went according to the meticulously drawn plans, the secret history says. In fact, C.I.A. officials were poised to flee the country when several Iranian officers recruited by the agency, acting on their own, took command of a pro-shah demonstration in Tehran and seized the government.

Two days after the coup, the history discloses, agency officials funneled $5 million to Iran to help the government they had installed consolidate power.

Yes, Iranians working for the CIA actually conducted bombings in Iran, while pretending to be Communists, just so they could help the Shah gain power.

[Cam_Nedland]

Perfect timing, we talked about this not too long ago in my Comparative Politics class.

Background:

Even though Iran was never formally colonized, its internal affairs and sovereignty were constantly being violated by the West. This was most blatant in WWI and WWII, when Britain and Russia used Persian ground as areas for troop movements. Thus, anti-western sentiment was already building up.

The overthrow:

When the overthrow happened, anti-western sentiment reached a boiling point. Islam was used as a unifying (due to various ethnic divisions), anti-Western ideology. Islam kind of “stuck” as the ideology of choice.

That’s the short story of it.