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 ...

The British government repeatedly sought Washington's participation in its attempts to oust a former Iranian leader from power, according to recently declassified documents published Tuesday. The ...

Despite efforts by Iran's leaders to keep photographers off the streets during post-election protests this month, many vivid images have emerged. The one posted here, above, is the one I found most ...

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 is ...

This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of Operation Ajax—the notorious CIA plot that is supposed to have ousted Iranian prime minister Muhammad Mossadeq. In the intervening decades, the events of ...

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 to ...

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 ...

The idea of looking into the mirror in search of answers to political weakness does not exist in Iranian political culture. That's no clearer example than the 1953 coup against Mohammed Mossadeq Sixty ...

All over the Middle East last week, men with old hatreds seized new opportunities. The daddy of all the troubles, long underestimated Mr. Mossadeq of Iran, sat in Room 1619 of New York Hospital’s ...

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 confuses ...