In the 1950s, Iran’s secular government nationalized its oil reserves as part of its anti-imperialist agenda. Its overthrow by the US and UK, enabled by Iranian business and religious elites, paved ...

The CIA's overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh was a first for the agency and served as the template for covert operations across the... Declassified Documents Reveal CIA Role In 1953 ...

One by one, Mohammed Mossadegh was shedding or losing his powerful supporters. The first to go was evil old Mullah Kashani, powerful Speaker of the Majlis (Parliament) and boss of a gang of terrorists ...

Reviewing Oliver Stone’s controversial film JFK in 1991, the late critic Roger Ebert stated that Stone’s film “is not a documentary, not a historical study and not a courtroom presentation, but a ...

For connoisseurs of irony, there was much to savor in the timing of Monday’s announcement from the White House that, while it had been notified in advance of what was likely to happen, it had nothing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the “blame America first” crowd, the ouster of Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953 has long been a useful crutch ...

Once upon a time, in a mountainous land between Baghdad and the Sea of Caviar, there lived a nobleman. This nobleman, after a lifetime of carping at the way the kingdom was run, became Chief Minister ...

In 1951, she met Iran’s new hope on his way to the U.N. Michael Daly on an Iranian-American New York story. Special Correspondent With the arrival of Iran’s new president in New York came a glimmer of ...

“It may be easier to articulate the peculiar difficulty of constraining a Mossadegh by the use of threats when one is fresh from a vain attempt at using threats to keep a small child from hurting a ...

Both left and right use the 1953 coup against Iran's prime minister as a morality lesson about American foreign policy. But Mossadegh's complex legacy must be understood on its own terms, not ours.