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03-21-2008, 07:16 PM
The 1953 Iranian coup d'état saw the overthrow of the democratically-elected administration of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq and his cabinet from power by British and American intelligence operatives working together with elements of the Iranian army. Bribing Iranian officials, news media and others with British and American funds, Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),organized the covert operation aiding retired Iranian General Fazlollah Zahedi and Colonel Nassiri. The project to overthrow Iran's government was codenamed Operation Ajax (officially TP-AJAX).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/iran/mosaddeq.jpg
Iranian Prime Minster Mohammad Mosaddeq being carried away by supporters outside the parliament building after an address on oil nationalization.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/iran/index.htm
A short account of 1953 coup
http://www.iranchamber.com/history/coup53/images/mosaddeq_trial.jpg
http://www.iranchamber.com/history/coup53/images/demonstrators.jpg
http://www.iranchamber.com/history/coup53/coup53p3.php
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Mossadeq.jpg
Dr. Mohammad Mossadeq
Mohammad Mosaddeq (Mossadeq (help·info)) (Persian: Ù…Ø*مد مصدق‎ Moḥammad Moá¹£addeq, also Mosaddegh or Mossadegh) (16 June 1882 – 5 March 1967) served as the Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953. A prominent parliamentarian when Prime Minister Ali Razmara was assassinated in 1951, he was twice appointed to that office by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, after a positive vote of inclination by the parliament.Mossadegh was a nationalist and passionately opposed foreign intervention in Iran. He was also the architect of the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry, which had been under British control through the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), today known as British Petroleum (BP).
He was eventually removed from power on August 19, 1953, in a coup d'état, supported and funded by the British and U.S. governments and led by General Fazlollah Zahedi [4]. The American operation came to be known as Operation Ajax in America,[5] after its CIA cryptonym, and as the "28 Mordad 1332" coup in Iran, after its date on the Iranian calendar. Dr. Mosaddeq was imprisoned for three years and subsequently put under house arrest until his death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Mosaddeq
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/iran/mosaddeq.jpg
Iranian Prime Minster Mohammad Mosaddeq being carried away by supporters outside the parliament building after an address on oil nationalization.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/iran/index.htm
A short account of 1953 coup
http://www.iranchamber.com/history/coup53/images/mosaddeq_trial.jpg
http://www.iranchamber.com/history/coup53/images/demonstrators.jpg
http://www.iranchamber.com/history/coup53/coup53p3.php
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Mossadeq.jpg
Dr. Mohammad Mossadeq
Mohammad Mosaddeq (Mossadeq (help·info)) (Persian: Ù…Ø*مد مصدق‎ Moḥammad Moá¹£addeq, also Mosaddegh or Mossadegh) (16 June 1882 – 5 March 1967) served as the Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953. A prominent parliamentarian when Prime Minister Ali Razmara was assassinated in 1951, he was twice appointed to that office by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, after a positive vote of inclination by the parliament.Mossadegh was a nationalist and passionately opposed foreign intervention in Iran. He was also the architect of the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry, which had been under British control through the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), today known as British Petroleum (BP).
He was eventually removed from power on August 19, 1953, in a coup d'état, supported and funded by the British and U.S. governments and led by General Fazlollah Zahedi [4]. The American operation came to be known as Operation Ajax in America,[5] after its CIA cryptonym, and as the "28 Mordad 1332" coup in Iran, after its date on the Iranian calendar. Dr. Mosaddeq was imprisoned for three years and subsequently put under house arrest until his death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Mosaddeq