How CIA & MI6 Overthrew Mossadegh 70 Years Ago, Crushing Democracy in Iran
How CIA & MI6 Overthrew Mossadegh 70 Years Ago, Crushing Democracy in Iran
www.democracynow.org How CIA & MI6 Overthrew Mossadegh 70 Years Ago, Crushing Democracy in Iran
We look at the 70th anniversary of the August 19, 1953, U.S.- and U.K-backed coup in Iran, which took place two years after Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh nationalized Iran’s oil industry that had been controlled by the company now known as British Petroleum. “If nat...
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