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The Coup 1953, The CIA, and The Roots of Modern U

By Abrahamian , Ervand

Book information

Publisher
The, New Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781595588623, 9781595588265, 1595588264, 1595588620
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
308 kB (315350 bytes)
Pages
324 Seiten\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

In August 1953, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency orchestrated the swift overthrow of Iran's democratically elected leader and installed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in his place. Over the next twenty-six years, the United States backed the unpopular, authoritarian shah and his secret police; in exchange, it reaped a share of Iran's oil wealth and became a key player in this volatile region. The blowback was almost inevitable, as this new and revealing history of the coup and its consequences shows. When the 1979 Iranian Revolution deposed the shah and replaced his puppet governme ...

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