'Coup 53' Tells The Story Of A 1953 Campaign By MI6 And The CIA To Oust Iran's Leader

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The historical documentary 'Coup 53' tells the story of Operation Ajax, in which Britain's MI6 and the American CIA planned the forcible removal of Iran's prime minister in 1953. A live, transatlantic digital release of the film will take place on Aug. 19.

spy novels in which George Smiley goes around talking to people to tease out who did what and when. We follow the likable Amirani over nearly a decade as he roots around for information, a quest that carries him from national security archives in D.C. and dusty basements in Paris, to glitzy apartments inhabited by moral monsters.

Naturally, Iranians resented this deal — and the British habit of treating them like animals. Mosaddegh was an erudite and charismatic Persian adored by the masses, and when he came to power, he nationalized the oil industry, expropriating the British oil company's assets. The outraged British decided to take Mosaddegh down. Though America was at first reluctant — Harry Truman got along with Mosaddegh — Dwight Eisenhower's team of Cold Warriors wrongly saw this nationalist conservative as a potential tool of Moscow. He had to go.

How that happens is the heart of the film, which paints a fascinatingly detailed picture of how, in practical terms, you go about toppling a popular foreign leader. It all starts with spreading around money and maybe arranging a couple of assassinations. The key figure in the operation was a mysterious MI6 agent named Norman Darbyshire who talked to the media only once — for a TV series on the British Empire.

Britain and America had seemingly gotten what they wanted, including their cut of Iranian oil. But asreminds us, history loves unintended consequences. Although the British ran the coup, the Americans immediately replaced them as the dominant foreign power in Iran. As for the shah, his harsh reign eventually spawned the Islamic Revolution, leading to more than 40 years of oppressive rule by mullahs who see the U.S., not Britain, as its prime enemy.

 

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hateusbecausaeyouaintus They LET the British extract the oil. In 1933, Iranian negotiators got outmaneuvered & signed a bad deal. Say what you will about the UK/USA but at least contract law supported their actions. Mosadegh was wrong to nationalize oil and let in the CIA.

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The one thing the US is good at doing. Creating our own enemies.

Interference and sabotage in other countries is in the nature of the United States and Britain.

Someday, after all the facts have come out and people have been held accountable, there will be a documentary on the failed coup of 2016. DurhamReport DurhamProbe

A very sad chapter in the history of American foreign relations

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