![]() intelligence services to overthrow Mossadegh and restore the monarchy under the shah. A fuming United Kingdom began conspiring with U.S. ![]() So in early 1951, amid great popular acclaim, Mossadegh nationalized Iran’s oil industry. firm in Saudi Arabia bowed to pressure in late 1950 and agreed to share oil revenues evenly with Riyadh, the British concession in Iran came under intense pressure to follow suit. Western firms had for decades controlled the region’s oil wealth, whether Arabian-American Oil Company in Saudi Arabia, or the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in Iran. Known as Operation Ajax, the CIA plot was ultimately about oil. The approximately 1,000 pages of documents also reveal for the first time the details of how the CIA attempted to call off the failing coup - only to be salvaged at the last minute by an insubordinate spy on the ground. ![]() Declassified documents released last week shed light on the Central Intelligence Agency’s central role in the 1953 coup that brought down Iranian Prime Minister Muhammad Mossadegh, fueling a surge of nationalism which culminated in the 1979 Iranian Revolution and poisoning U.S.-Iran relations into the 21st century.
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