Mohammad Reza Shah when he returns to Tehran after the 1953 coup. photographed here at the airport w
Mohammad Reza Shah when he returns to Tehran after the 1953 coup. photographed here at the airport with Zahedi on his right, and Nasiri on his left. Engineered by the CIA and the British intelligence to safeguard the west’s oil interests, the coup which overthrew the democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddeq, consolidated the shah’s rule until the 1979 Islamic revolution. In 2013, the CIA publicly admitted that it was behind the coup, but Britain is yet to come clean. Photo by Dr William Arthur Cram. More here. -- source link