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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Because my book honors Mossadeq, who was a secular liberal and who detested fundamentalism, I hardly expected any representative of the current Iranian regime, especially one who would rule on my ...

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.

When the British protested to the U.N., Mossadeq came to the U.S., spoke at the U.N., met with President Truman, and Time magazine made him their man of the year in 1951.

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 ...

Mossadeq became a national hero in 1951 when his government nationalised the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, a move which cemented the country’s drive for economic as well as political independence.

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