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Western Oil: the US/UK-Backed Iranian Coup D'état of 1953
The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état (Persian: کودتای ۲۸ مرداد), was the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh on 19 August 1953. Led by the Iranian army and supported by the United States and the United Kingdom, the coup aimed at strengthening the autocratic rule of the shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
Khosro Roozbeh Mohammad Reza Shah Fazlollah Zahedi Nematollah Nassiri( POW) Shaban Jafari Assadollah Rashidian Mahmud Mir-Djalali Dwight Eisenhower Allen Dulles Kermit Roosevelt Jr. Winston Churchill Anthony Eden John Sinclair [16] Initially, Britain mobilized its military to seize control of the British-built Abadan oil refinery, then the world's largest, but Prime Minister Clement Attlee(in power until 1951) opted instead to tighten the economic boycott[17] while using Iranian agents to undermine Mosaddegh's government. Directed by Hasan Fathi and written jointly with playwright and university professor Naghmeh Samini, the TV series Shahrzad is the story of a love broken apart by events in the aftermath of the 1953 coup that overthrew the democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh.
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