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The US has overthrown an Iranian government before!
2025-06-18 18:00:12 / BOTA
Since Israel launched its attack on Iran, calls for regime change have grown stronger, with US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raising the possibility of targeting Tehran's all-powerful leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Many Iranians have direct experience with the United States implementing regime change in their country.
Oil Fields: In 1953, the US helped organize a coup to overthrow Iran's democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh.
He had pledged to nationalize the country's oil fields, a move that the US and UK saw as a serious blow, given their dependence on oil from the Middle East.
The height of the Cold War: The nationalization move was seen as popular in Iran and a victory for the then USSR.
Strengthening the rule of the Shah (King): The goal of the coup was to support the monarch of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, to rule as the Shah of Iran and to appoint a new prime minister, General Fazlollah Zahedi.
Coup: Before the coup, the CIA, along with the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), helped fan the anti-Mossadegh fire using propaganda. In 1953, the CIA and SIS helped unite pro-Shah forces and organized large protests against Mossadegh, which were quickly joined by the military.
US Money: The documents showed that to provide Zahed, the country's new prime minister, with some stability, the CIA secretly made $5,000,000 available within two days of his taking power.
CIA documents: In 2013, declassified CIA documents were released, confirming the agency's involvement for the first time. But the US role was well-known: Former President Barack Obama admitted involvement in the 2009 coup.
This backfired: After Mossadegh's overthrow, the US strengthened its support for Pahlavi to rule as Shah. Iranians opposed foreign intervention, fueling anti-American sentiment in the country for decades.
Islamic Revolution: The Shah (King) became a close ally of the United States. But in the late 1970s, millions of Iranians took to the streets against his regime, which they viewed as corrupt and illegitimate. Secular protesters opposed his authoritarianism, while Islamist protesters opposed his modernization agenda.
The Shah was overthrown in the 1979 Islamic revolution, which ended the country's Western-backed monarchy and marked the beginning of the Islamic Republic and clerical rule.
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