Iran and the CIA : the fall of Mosaddeq revisited / Darioush Bayandor.

By:

Bayandor, Darioush, 1939- [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010Description: xvii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780230579279

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DDC classification:

955.053 B.D.I 22

LOC classification:

DS316.6 .B386 2010

Contents:

The advent of Mosaddeq and the oil crisis -- Mosaddeq's second government, July 1952- August 1953 -- The downslide -- The downfall -- Anatomy of August 19 -- Where did the spark come from?

Summary: "In the early 1950s, frail septuagenarian prime minister of Iran, Doctor Mohammad Mosaddeq, shook the world by challenging Britain by nationalizing Iran's British-run oil industries. In August of 1953, he was overthrown. Revisiting these events with astonishing new evidence, this book challenges the conventionally-held theory of foul play by the CIA"--Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-237) and index.

The advent of Mosaddeq and the oil crisis -- Mosaddeq's second government, July 1952- August 1953 -- The downslide -- The downfall -- Anatomy of August 19 -- Where did the spark come from?

"In the early 1950s, frail septuagenarian prime minister of Iran, Doctor Mohammad Mosaddeq, shook the world by challenging Britain by nationalizing Iran's British-run oil industries. In August of 1953, he was overthrown. Revisiting these events with astonishing new evidence, this book challenges the conventionally-held theory of foul play by the CIA"--Provided by publisher.

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