In 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency helped plan and then participated in a coup to overthrow Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. Much mythology surrounds the episode. In the decades since, ...

Aug. 19 marked the 70th anniversary of the overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh, the first democratically elected prime minister of Iran. It was the first coup d’état in the modern era orchestrated by the ...

Distracted by this summer’s record-setting heat, the looming Republican primary debate, and the indictments of a former president, we Americans are unlikely to mark this 70th anniversary. Too many of ...

The Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran. The United States deposed democratically elected Mohammad Mosaddegh in favor of increasing the Shah’s power in Iran. The U.S. has been at war in ...

The Central Intelligence Agency recently said in a podcast episode that a CIA-backed coup in Iran during the 1950’s was “undemocratic,” a first for the agency. According to an article by the ...

This truth has endured for decades, from the 1953 removal of Mosaddegh to today's looming US-Israeli strike Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh was deposed in a 1953 US-British coup after making ...

The Foreign Policy Mistake the U.S. Keeps Repeating in the Middle East In 2024, the U.S. faces some of the same challenges in the region that it did in 1954.

The word of the day is “blowback” – presciently defined by the CIA in a 1954 report as “… an unforeseen and unwanted effect, result, or set of repercussions …” On May 1, 1952, the democratically ...

August 19th marked the 70th anniversary of the overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh, the first democratically-elected prime minister of Iran. It was the first coup d’état in the modern era orchestrated by ...