How the US toppled a popular regime in Iran
By the end of Second World War more and more countries which were pillaged and plundered under the colonial yoke, declared their freedom. National liberation movements emerged victorious. Iran under the leadership of Mohammad Mossadegh was also not an exception to this trend. Iran had been undergoing a struggle for constitutionality from the start of 20th century. The election of Mohammad Mossadegh as the Prime Minister in 1951 was a natural consequence to that trend. But the otherwise frail and emotional Mossadegh gave the biggest post-world war shock to Britain and US by his decision to nationalise the oil industry. Till that day, the Anglo-Iranian oil company, later British Petroleum, was virtually looting Iran’s oil wealth. This was more than enough for the former colonial masters to topple his government. CIA’s Near East and Africa division chief Kermit Roosevelt arrived in Tehran to orchestrate the operation, code named TP-AJAX. They used every tactic ranging from propaganda to bribery. On August 19,1953 CIA sponsored coup d’tat successfully accomplished and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran became the ‘puppet’ monarch of Iran for US. For 26 years Reza Pahlavi ruled according to the Washington scriptures. Opposition parties, especially the Tudeh Party (Communist party of Iran) were brutally suppressed.
By the end of Second World War more and more countries which were pillaged and plundered under the colonial yoke, declared their freedom. National liberation movements emerged victorious. Iran under the leadership of Mohammad Mossadegh was also not an exception to this trend. Iran had been undergoing a struggle for constitutionality from the start of 20th century. The election of Mohammad Mossadegh as the Prime Minister in 1951 was a natural consequence to that trend. But the otherwise frail and emotional Mossadegh gave the biggest post-world war shock to Britain and US by his decision to nationalise the oil industry. Till that day, the Anglo-Iranian oil company, later British Petroleum, was virtually looting Iran’s oil wealth. This was more than enough for the former colonial masters to topple his government. CIA’s Near East and Africa division chief Kermit Roosevelt arrived in Tehran to orchestrate the operation, code named TP-AJAX. They used every tactic ranging from propaganda to bribery. On August 19,1953 CIA sponsored coup d’tat successfully accomplished and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran became the ‘puppet’ monarch of Iran for US. For 26 years Reza Pahlavi ruled according to the Washington scriptures. Opposition parties, especially the Tudeh Party (Communist party of Iran) were brutally suppressed.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
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