Thursday, August 20, 2015

On this day, The CIA helped overthrow Muhammad Mossadegh




The CIA helped overthrow Muhammad Mossadegh, Iran's charismatic leader, on this day in 1953. Two years earlier he had nationalised the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now known as BP) http://econ.st/1E3hItO
Iran and the CIA: The Fall of Mossadeq Revisited.

No comments:

Post a Comment