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Before the Iran War: The Secret CIA Operation to Oust an Iranian Regime
#Iran #MiddleEast #History
In 1953, Iran's democratically elected prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh was dismissed from office with a decree from the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, carried out by the Iranian Imperial Guard. The military coup was the culmination of many months of secret planning and activity by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) as part of a plot to overthrow the Iranian government — a plan known as Operation Ajax.
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Unfolding like a political thriller, TAKEN HOSTAGE tells the story of the Iran hostage crisis, when 52 American diplomats, Marines and civilians were held hostage at the American Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. For the next 444 days, the world watched as the United States received a daily barrage of humiliation, vitriol and hatred from a country that had long been one of our closest allies. Told through the candid, personal testimony of those whose lives were upended by the action, the crisis would transform both the U.S. and Iran and forever upend the focus and direction of American foreign policy.
00:00 Introduction - Tehran, Iran
01:29 Mohammed Mossadegh
00:39 The Anglo-Persian Oil Company
02:27 Conspiring to Overthrow Mossadegh
03:43 Stage One - Propaganda
03:54 Stage Two - Dismiss Mossadegh
04:26 Stage Three - Paid Mobs
05:10 Stage Four - New Prime Minister
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