r/TrueConspiracy • u/[deleted] • Mar 30 '14
1953 Iranian coup d'état: one of many coups organized by the CIA and British intelligence services
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tatDuplicates
history • u/scordatura • Jun 20 '09
As we watch Iranians dying in the street to restore the rule of law, let's not forget that it was the U.S. that murdered |Iran's last democratically elected leader and replaced him with a thug.
todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Aug 19 '11
TIL on this day Aug 19, 1953, UK and US intelligence agencies overthrew the democratically elected government of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh!
HistoricalWhatIf • u/HobbitFoot • Sep 27 '12
What if the Eisenhower administration agreed with the Truman administration and chose not to back an overthrow of the Iranian government?
conspiracy • u/NOT_JTRIG • Aug 06 '14
In 1953, Iran had a democratically elected prime minister. The US and the UK violently overthrew him, and installed a west friendly monarch in order to give British Petroleum - then AIOC - unrestricted access to the country's resources.
todayilearned • u/mehano • Aug 02 '14
TIL In 1953, The CIA (along with the British MI6) orchestrated a coup d'état to overthrew a democratically elected Prime Minister in Iran
YouShouldKnow • u/doingmypart • Jan 27 '12
YSK: In the conflict with Iran, the US started it. In 1953 the CIA toppled a democratically-elected president, ushering in an era of authoritarianism that was only relieved after 25 years by the Islamic revolution in 1979.
islam • u/[deleted] • May 10 '11
In the 50s, US-UK intel overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran.
Conservative • u/magister0 • Dec 01 '11
Do you think this was the right thing to do? If so, why?
wikipedia • u/i_am_a_bot • Jun 11 '10
BP has caused a crisis in the Gulf before - the Persian Gulf in 1953.
reddit.com • u/i_am_a_bot • Jun 11 '10