Known as Operation Ajax, the coup was carried out after an earlier coup attempt failed to overthrow Mosaddegh and install General Fazlollah Zahedi, the shah’s reliable ally, as prime minister. As a ...

In 1953, the overthrow of democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh set a historic, chilling precedent. The coup d’état, orchestrated by the CIA and MI6, irrevocably shaped the ...

Update November 25, 2011: The full app has just been released and is available free if downloaded in the next week. [ spotlight ] It has been nearly fifteen years since, during a reporting trip to ...

NAM delegates in Tehran owe it to Iranian people to express not just their opposition to economic sanctions and the threat of war against Iran, but their unconditional support for the democratic ...

Much wisdom about empire can be acquired by observing the decades of running commentary on Iranian "abnormality" in Western discourse. Subsequent to the Iranian parliament’s almost unanimous vote to ...

This truth has endured for decades, from the 1953 removal of Mosaddegh to today's looming US-Israeli strike “We will not be coerced, whether by foreign governments or by international authorities,” ...

Mosaddegh is very well-known for his efforts in nationalization of the Iranian oil industry in 1951. Prior to the nationalization of the industry it had been under British control since 1913 through ...

A nation forced to erase its personal history is condemned to a broader historical amnesia and doomed to repeat its mistakes We don’t have many family heirlooms. We have one. A photograph of my father ...