Coup 53

Old secrets cast long shadows

Coup 53

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Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed tyrant Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, have conspired with agents of the British MI6 and the US CIA, manage to put an end to the democratic government led by Mohammad Mosaddegh, a dramatic event that will begin the tragic era of coups d'état that, orchestrated by the CIA, will take place, over the following decades, in dozens of countries around the world.

Ralph Fiennes

Taghi Amirani

Farhad Diba

Malcolm Byrne

Stephen Kinzer

Walter Murch

Ervand Abrahamian

Alison Rooper

David Owen

Mark Anderson

Humphry Trevelyan

Chris Morphet

Rameza Mahsani

Adbolzahra Baghlani

Ghobad Fakhimi

Nigel Hawkes

Stephen Dorril

Hamid Ahmadi

Mousa Mehran

Ardeshir Zahedi

David Talbot

Siavush Randjbar-Daemi

Ahmad Djalili

Haj Habib

Abdolmajid Bayat

Esmail Yazdi

Andrew Goddard

Kane Morrell

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Winston Churchill

Richard Nixon

Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran

Mohammad Mosaddegh

Julian Amery

Kermit Roosevelt

Bernie Sanders

Frank Reynolds

Peter Ramsbotham

Donald Logan

Henry Grady

Sam Falle

Stephen Meade

Nasrollah Fatemi

Peter Avery

Eric Drake

Fouad Rouhani

Frank Soskice

Harry S. Truman

Basil Jackson

Joe Addison

Shapour Bakhtiar

Abolhassan Banisadr

Fazlollah Zahedi

George Middleton

George McGhee

Joseph McCarthy

John Foster Dulles

Richard Cottam

Fereydoun Azarnour

Princess Ashraf Pahlavi of Iran

Mehdi Homayouni

Abol-Ghasem Kashani

Alireza Saheb

Nematollah Nassiri

Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari

Amir Pishdad

Abbas Aghelizadeh

Efraim Halevy

Jacobo Árbenz

Jimmy Carter

Ruhollah Khomeini

Donald Trump