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

Mohammed Mossadeq had been serving as a democratically-elected Prime Minister for two years when a US-British coup was staged and he was removed to be replaced with leader more amenable to the ...

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 ...

Will the United States join Israel’s war on Iran? This is the biggest question today, as Iran and Israel continue their war of attrition. On the eighth consecutive day of escalating hostilities—with ...

On Grady’s plea, Mossadeq gave London two more days to answer the Iranian ultimatum. For the time being, at least, the British were still hanging on.

This follows Mossadeq's nationalization of the Britain-owned Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which led London to impose an oil embargo on Iran. The coup brings back to power the Western-friendly ...

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 ...