Reply #5: Eisenhower may have a better reputation than he deserves. [View All]

[Eric J in MN]

America's problems with Iran started with the 1953 overthrow of their democratic government.

wikipedia:
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The 1953 Iranian coup d'état deposed the government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq and his cabinet, it was effected by Gen. Fazlollah Zahedi, SIS, and CIA agents working with anti-Communist civilians and army officers. The attempt to encourage a coup d'état, Operation Ajax required CIA man Kermit Roosevelt, Jr.'s bribing government officials, the news media, and businessmen, <1> to allow imposing retired Gen. Fazlollah Zahedi and Imperial Guard Col. Nematollah Nassiri as the government.<2>

This deposition of a formerly elected civil government was "a critical event in post-war world history", because it re-installed the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, leading a pro-Western dictatorship, that, in the event, contributed to his deposition by the anti-Western Islamic Republic in 1979. <3>
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