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The 1953 Iranian coup d'état was the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh on 19 August 1953, orchestrated by the intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom and the United States

In 1951, Iran's oil industry was nationalized with near-unanimous support of Iran's parliament in a bill introduced by Mossadegh

Iran's oil had been controlled by the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Popular discontent with the AIOC began in the late 1940s, a large segment of Iran's public and a number of politicians saw the company as exploitative and a vestige of British imperialism.

Despite Mosaddegh's popular support, Britain was unwilling to negotiate its single most valuable foreign asset, and instigated a worldwide boycott of Iranian oil to pressure Iran economically.

Initially, Britain mobilized its military to seize control of the Abadan oil refinery, the world's largest, but Prime Minister Clement Attlee opted instead to tighten the economic boycott while using Iranian agents to undermine Mosaddegh's government

With a change to more conservative governments in both Britain and the United States, Churchill and the U.S. Eisenhower administration decided to overthrow Iran's government

Britain and the U.S. selected Fazlollah Zahedi to be the prime minister of a military government that was to replace Mosaddegh's government. Subsequently, a royal decree dismissing Mosaddegh and appointing Zahedi was drawn up by the coup plotters and signed by the Shah

The Central Intelligence Agency had successfully pressured the weak monarch to participate in the coup, while bribing street thugs, clergy, politicians and Iranian army officers to take part in a propaganda campaign against Mosaddegh and his government

On 19 August, a pro-Shah mob, paid by the CIA, marched on Mosaddegh's residence.
According to the CIA's declassified documents and records, some of the most feared mobsters in Tehran were hired by the CIA to stage pro-Shah riots on the 19th. Other CIA-paid men were brought into Tehran in buses and trucks, and took over the streets of the city.
800 people were killed during and as a direct result of the conflict

Mosaddegh was arrested, tried and convicted of treason by the Shah's military court. On 21 December 1953, he was sentenced to three years in jail, then placed under house arrest for the remainder of his life.
Mosaddegh's supporters were rounded up, imprisoned, tortured or executed

The tangible benefits the United States reaped from overthrowing Iran's elected government included a share of Iran's oil wealth

Washington continually supplied arms to the unpopular Shah, and the CIA-trained SAVAK, his repressive secret police force. The coup is widely believed to have significantly contributed to anti-American sentiment in Iran and the Middle East.

The 1979 Iranian Revolution deposed the Shah and replaced the pro-Western royal dictatorship with the largely anti-Western Islamic Republic of Iran


NOW I SHOUT ANGRILY

EVERYTHING YOU SEE, READ and HEAR ABOUT THE ARAB SPRING IS LIES!
IT IS ORCHESTRATED BY THE CIA
THE POLITICIANS ARE LYING TO YOU!
THE MEDIA IS LYING TO YOU!
IT IS CALLED PROPAGANDA!
WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?
BECAUSE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED AND THOUSANDS MORE WILL BE KILLED AS A RESULT OF GREED, CORRUPTION AND PURE EVIL

they all said they intervened to prevent a humanitarian disaster and you all believed them
even when you knew of the horrific conflicts in Rwanda and Sudan where the "western good guys" failed to act or give a ****
all of a sudden they care, how nice