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CIA-IRAN: CIA admits role in 1953 Iranian coup - Declassified documents describe in detail how US – with British help – engineered coup against Mohammad Mosaddeq

19 August 2013

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"The CIA has publicly admitted for the first time that it was behind the notorious 1953 coup against Iran's democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, in documents that also show how the British government tried to block the release of information about its own involvement in his overthrow."

See the full article: CIA admits role in 1953 Iranian coup - Declassified documents describe in detail how US – with British help – engineered coup against Mohammad Mosaddeq (Guardian, link)

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