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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—While revealing new details about one of the most famed CIA operations of all times—the spiriting out of six American diplomats who escaped the 1979 US Embassy seizure in Iran — the intelligence agency for the first time has acknowledged something else as well. The CIA now officially describes the 1953 coup
The admission came in a recent episode of the CIA's podcast, The Langley Files, released about a month before the unprecedented Hamas attack on Israel last weekend.
While exploring the 'Argo' rescue, the CIA publicly acknowledged that America, the UK, and Iran-army involvement in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état was 'undemocratic'
On Aug. 19, 1953, 70 years ago this week, the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh—who had seized Iran’s vast oil fields from the British and put them under Iranian control—was removed from power in a coup organized and financed by the British and US governments. He was replaced by the dictatorial Shah, who immediately signed over 40% of Iran’s oil fields to US companies. The coup ushered in a long nightmare of repression, buttressed by Iran’s brutal secret police,
Recent book says Queen Elizabeth II 'considered the shah a crushing bore and hated his company as he only talked of administrative matters,' but was angry he wasn't offered asylum