Did the US help to overthrow the democratically leader of Iran in 1953? Was there a coup?

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10. "It's Always About Oil" Democracy Now August 2023

“It’s Always About Oil”: CIA & MI6 Staged Coup in Iran 70 Years Ago, Destroying Democracy in Iran

AUGUST 23, 2023

We look at the 70th anniversary of the August 19, 1953, U.S.- and U.K-backed coup in Iran, which took place two years after Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh nationalized Iran’s oil industry that had been controlled by the company now known as British Petroleum. “If nationalization in Iran of oil was successful, this would set a terrible example to other countries where U.S. oil interests were present,” explains Ervand Abrahamian, Iranian historian and author of Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup d’Etat and The Coup: 1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations. While the CIA has historically taken credit for Mosaddegh’s overthrow, “the British have not admitted their leading role,” notes Iranian filmmaker Taghi Amirani, whose documentary film Coup 53 uncovers the influence of MI6 agents who sought to preserve their imperial-era access to Iranian oil and pulled in the Americans by promising a “slice.”...more
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/23/ervand_abrahamian_iran_coup_1953_anniversary

Recall that every night Ted Koppel would host a half an hour about the "Hostage Crisis" - but the full history was never told because the CIA didn't officially acknowledge the coup until 2013.

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