Declassified Documents Shed Light on U.S. Role in 1953 Iran Coup

The Daily Sheeple:

The State Department released a “retrospective” volume of declassified documents on Thursday on the 1953 coup in Iran that overthrew the elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh and reinstated the rule of the Shah Reza Pahlavi, what constitutes one of the first true official acknowledgments of the clandestine American and British participation in the event.

“For decades, neither the U.S. nor the British governments would acknowledge their part in Mosaddeq’s overthrow, even though a detailed account appeared as early as 1954 in the Saturday Evening Post, and since then CIA and MI6 veterans of the coup have published memoirs detailing their activities,” read a National Security Archive press release.

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