While the memories of the US wounds date back to the Ayatollah Khomeini-led Iranian Revolution in 1979 and the subsequent ...

America's open support for Israel's war against Iran is similar to its support in the 1950s for an operation initially ...

This is a copy of U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Clandestine Service Historical Paper 208, titled "Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq Of Iran, November 1952- August 1953." Written by CIA Agent ...

Mossadeq’s government nationalised the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (which was a forerunner to BP), a move that was widely popular in the country but alarming to the UK and the US.

The IRGC reports directly to the Supreme Leader, bypassing the elected president and operates beyond the bounds of the law and the judiciary. Its initial aim was to protect the new regime from a coup ...

Mossadeq’s grandson, lawyer Hedayat Matin-Daftari, who was flogged and thrown over the side of a mountain in 1967 and imprisoned by the Shah last year, had to flee last week into hiding in order to ...

Reportedly 200 people were killed,” in a battle at Prime Minister Mossadeq’s house. Mosaddeq “escaped over his own roof, only to surrender the following day.” The CIA coup restored the monarchy of ...