Original upload date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 08:20:04 GMT
American CIA and British MI6 draw up Operation Ajax. A secret plan to overthrow the democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq in order to secure their oil interests and contain S
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oviet influence.
Sources
Oil, Power and Principle: Iran's Oil Nationalization and Its Aftermath - Mostafa Elm
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power - Daniel Yergin
CIA Clandestine Service History, "Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq of Iran,
November 1952-August 1953," March 1954, - Dr. Donald Wilber. (National Security Archive document)
Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East - Rashid Khalidi
Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East - Rashid Khalidi
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA - Tim Weiner
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror - Stephen Kinzer
A Concise History of the Middle East - Arthur Goldschmidt and Lawrence Davidson
