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Death to America - The History Behind the Chant - Part 2 - The Coup
August 16, 1953: The coup against Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh had failed. The Shah fled the country. Mosaddegh remained in power.
Three days later, everything changed.
In Part II of Death to America: The History Behind the Chant, we follow the struggle over Iran’s nationalized oil industry into Operation TPAJAX (the CIA and MI6-backed effort to remove Mosaddegh from power).
The documents leave little doubt that Britain and the United States helped engineer his overthrow. But the story is more complicated than “America stole Iran’s oil.” Propaganda, money, political networks…
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