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- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état abstract "The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup, was the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and his cabinet on 19 August 1953, orchestrated by the United Kingdom (under the name 'Operation Boot') and the United States (under the name TPAJAX Project).Mossadegh had sought to reduce the semi-absolute role of the Shah granted by the Constitution of 1906, thus making Iran a full democracy, and to nationalize the Iranian oil industry, consisting of vast oil reserves and the Abadan Refinery, both owned by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, a British corporation (now BP). Following the coup in 1953, a military government under General Fazlollah Zahedi was formed which allowed Mohammad-Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran (Persian for an Iranian king), to effectively rule the country as an absolute monarch according to the constitution. He relied heavily on United States support to hold on to power until his own overthrow in February 1979. In August 2013 the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) admitted that it was involved in both the planning and the execution of the coup, including the bribing of Iranian politicians, security and army high-ranking officials, as well as pro-coup propaganda. The CIA is quoted acknowledging the coup was carried out "under CIA direction" and "as an act of U.S. foreign policy, conceived and approved at the highest levels of government." In 1951, Iran's oil industry was nationalized with near-unanimous support of Iran's parliament in a bill introduced by Mossadegh who led the nationalist party the National Front. Iran's oil had been controlled by the British-owned AIOC. 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 central tool of continued British imperialism in Iran. Despite Mosaddegh's popular support, Britain was unwilling to negotiate on 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, then 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, Winston Churchill and the Eisenhower administration decided to overthrow Iran's government though the predecessor Truman administration had opposed a coup. Classified documents show British intelligence officials played a pivotal role in initiating and planning the coup, and that AIOC contributed $25,000 towards the expense of bribing officials.Britain and the U.S. selected Fazlollah Zahedi to be the prime minister of a military government that was to replace Mosaddegh as premier. 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. At first, the coup appeared to be a failure when on the night of 15–16 August, Imperial Guard Colonel Nematollah Nassiri was arrested while attempting to arrest Mosaddegh. The Shah fled the country the next day. 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 19 August. Other CIA-paid men were brought into Tehran in buses and trucks, and took over the streets of the city. Between 300 and 800 people were killed because 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. Other Mosaddegh supporters were imprisoned, and several received the death penalty.After the coup, the Shah ruled as an absolute monarch for the next 26 years (under what he called a "guided democracy") while significantly modernizing the country using oil revenue, until he was overthrown in the Iranian Revolution in 1979. The tangible benefits the United States reaped from overthrowing Iran's elected government included a share of Iran's oil wealth and the prevention of the possibility that the Iranian government might align itself with the Soviet Union, although the latter motivation produces controversy among historians. Washington continually supplied arms to the increasingly unpopular Shah and the CIA-trained SAVAK, his repressive secret police force; however by the 1979 revolution, his increasingly independent policies resulted in his effective abandonment by his American allies, hastening his downfall. The coup is widely believed to have significantly contributed to anti-American sentiment in Iran and the Middle East. The 1979 revolution deposed the Shah and replaced the pro-Western absolute monarchy with the largely anti-Western authoritarian theocracy.".
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- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état caption "Tehran men celebrating the coup".
- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état casualties "300".
- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état combatant "* CIA *MI6".
- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état combatant "Mohammad Mosaddegh supporters".
- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état combatant "Mohammed Reza Pahlavi supporters".
- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état combatant "National Front".
- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état commander "Abol-Ghasem Kashani".
- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état commander "Allen Dulles".
- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état commander "Dwight D. Eisenhower".
- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état commander "Fazlollah Zahedi".
- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état commander "Hossein Fatemi".
- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état commander "John Alexander Sinclair".
- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état commander "Karim Sanjabi".
- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état commander "Mohammad Mosaddegh".
- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état commander "Mohammad Reza Pahlavi".
- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état commander "Winston Churchill".
- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état conflict "1953".
- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état date "--08-19".
- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état partof "the Abadan Crisis".
- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état place Iran.
- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état result "Overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh *Formation of a military government by General Fazlollah Zahedi, appointed prime minister by Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. *Restoration of absolute monarchy. *Blowback leading to long term deterioration of Iran–United States relations.".
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- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état subject Category:History_of_the_United_States_(1945–64).
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- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état label "1953 Iranian coup d'état".
- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état label "1953年伊朗政變".
- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état label "Golpe de Estado en Irán de 1953".
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- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état label "Операция Аякс".
- 1953_Iranian_coup_d'état label "انقلاب 1953 في إيران".
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