Ray Takeyh asserts that Mohammad Mossadeq wasn’t democratically elected prime minister of Iran but was appointed by the Shah (“The Real Story of the 1953 Iranian Coup,” op-ed, Aug. 19). This ...

Thursday marks the anniversary of one of the most mythologized events in history, the 1953 coup in Iran that ousted Prime Minister Muhammad Mossadeq. CIA complicity in that event has long provoked ...

Mossadeq was a Persian aristocrat who objected to Britain’s control of Iran’s oil. He led the nationalization charge and was instrumental in Iran’s reclaiming its national asset.

William Faulkner once mused that the past is never dead, in fact it’s not even past. The story of the coup that toppled Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mossadeq in 1953 may not be dead, but it ...

How come Premier Mohammed Mossadeq keels over so often? As every newspaper reader knows, he is prone to fainting fits, weeping or taking to his bed. What ails the man?When he arrived in Manhattan ...

Imagine if Aug. 19, 1953, had come and gone, uneventfully. Imagine if Operation Ajax, coordinated by the British MI6 and the American CIA, which toppled the flourishing democracy in Iran of ...

In the middle of the last century, the U.S. overthrew Iran's democratically elected leader, Muhammad Mossadeq. Some think it happened too long ago to be a major factor in today's protests; some ...

Sixty years after the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, a declassified CIA document acknowledges the agency was involved in the 1953 coup.

Mossadeq blew his nose, shook his head, and read on unevenly in singsong Persian. As he swayed back & forth, the aide had a hard time keeping him on his feet.

America's open support for Israel's war against Iran is similar to its support in the 1950s for an operation initially ideated by the UK, experts say.

Friedman, Jeremy. "Mossadeq’s Gambit: The US, UK, and Iranian Oil Nationalization." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 723-054, March 2023 ...