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What Really Happened in Iran

The CIA, the Ouster of Mosaddeq, and the Restoration of the Shah

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What Really Happened in Iran

By: Ray Takeyh
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Conventional wisdom about the 1953 coup in Iran rests on the myth that the CIA toppled the country's democratically elected prime minister. In reality, the coup was primarily a domestic Iranian affair, and the CIA's impact was ultimately insignificant.

©2014 Foreign Affairs (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Politics & Government Social Sciences Middle East Iran Espionage
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This is a short but great article. We've had the fun version of what happened in 1953 but this seems closer to the real version of what happened.

Great read

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What made the experience of listening to What Really Happened in Iran (Foreign Affairs) the most enjoyable?

Yes. Many times, many medias tried to call Mohammad Mosadegh the democratically elected government. Mossadegh was appointed by Shah and approval of the parliament like all other prime ministers. Is mossadegh was elected democratically, so all before and after Mosadegh was elected democratically. But the name of the game to call Shah who made a coupe against Mossadegh is to reduce Shah's legitimacy of his regime, and give legitimacy to Iran's revolution of 1979. The regime and their allies have shown that Shah took the power against the constitution and toppled Mohammad Mossadegh with aid of foreign powers against the will of Iranians, which was a big lie.
This book has neutral moment to what happened in 1954.

What other book might you compare What Really Happened in Iran (Foreign Affairs) to and why?

I always believed that the fairy tail of coup against Mosadegh was a cover for USA and UK to hid to what they really did in 1979 results in 1 million Iranian casualties and destroying all Iran infrastructure and Iranian civil laws. They support Khomeini come to power in 1979. and also the regime of Iran enjoyed the fairy tail to show Shah governments were not legitimate due to a coup.

Which scene was your favorite?

The part that admits overthrowing Mosadegh was made by people who liked Shah and CIA has insignificant role on it.

Any additional comments?

As it is indicated in this book, Islamic regime in Iran enjoy a lot with the fairy tail of coup against Mossadegh. They show Shah regime not legitimate by accusing him who perform coup with aid of foreign agencies, and took power like a thief; therefore, he must be overthrown which would legitimize the Islamic revolution in 1979. Revolutionary claims that initial pure goals of the revolution was deviated, therefore, people must wait and perform reform. the reform which has been always a make-up for the Regime.

Finally realistic version of history

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I am from Iran,

I have read many books such as ‘All of Salhah’s men’ that
Promoted the CIA as the only reason for the ouster of Mosadeg.

It delivered another view, that seems more accurate.

Sam
Romans 3:9-28

Excellent!

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where did the author get his data? the twist of truth to yield to one's own need for control and power is nothing but propaganda and an excuse to further exploit, blame and control the victim.

propaganda by the right to justify imperialism

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Listen if you enjoy wasting your time. I'm not sure to whom the author's loyalty or agenda lies but on truth and verifiable facts, it is not. Is this written by someone loyal to or commissioned by the Shah's family? His son that Israel is pushing HARD to get reinstated? Or is this written by someone loyal to Israel where the Shah's being placed back into power would be advantageous? Don't take my word for it, don't take the author's. Read up on the coup with credible sources like documents that are now unclassified. This is like the myths of the founding of the United States that all American little kids are taught. It's quite the shock when you realize how naive you've been after learning later in life that is "not quite" the whole story. . It's very challenging to realize we're not always the noble "good guys" that we may like to believe we are as a country. It's much the same when you finally understand that we often have been the destabilizer. We're are in the midst of doing this again with Iran right now,jusy as we just did, along with Israel, regarding Syria. In Syria, Israel just helped coup Asad and install a man who used to do terror with ISIS and Al Quaeda. But, they say "he's reformed." It would be funny if it wasn't so absurd, depressing and dangerous. Netanyahu just outright took credit for the support of the rebels that over threw the Syrian government. And just like with Iran, just like with Iraq and Libya, we never learn our lesson. We just bombed Iran a week ago and used the same tired explanation "they'll have nuclear weapons soon,just as Netanyahu has been saying since at least the 90s. The US denied the attack was about regime change. Then right after that, Israel came out and said yes, it is about regime change. Then the US president chimed in saying *hey why not do a regime change*. We never learn. History is important to understand, mostly so when we as a nation repeat the same dumb mistakes at least we have some basis to understand the manipulation tactics being deployed on us. Key to understanding history is to try to find a historian that is not with an obvious bias or revision of events.

Holy Revisionist History

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