The CIA and the CIA in the Civil War

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There was a widespread understanding among the Iranian polity that a coup or get orchestrated primarily by the Americans had happened it's not, it wasn't a secret to the ryan's. There were how you viewed the event internally in Iran was split along essentially political lines right so if you were a royalist you would sort of minimize American or British involvement. The basic parameters of the coup were well understood, very, very early on, I mean virtually immediately. They there's already this long standing kind of infiltration into important institutions and also into the cultural milieu of British and later American like forms of thinking.

Featuring Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi and Golnar Nikpour on the history of modern Iran. This is the second episode in our four-part series. We begin in 1941 with the British-Soviet occupation of Iran, the ouster of Reza Shah and his replacement by his son, Mohammad Reza Shah. We continue with the rise of the Tudeh communist party, the nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, Mohammad Mosaddegh's National Party coming to power, and the 1953 US-British coup that overthrew Mosaddegh and reinstalled Mohammad Reza Shah as dictator. His brutal reign continued until the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which is where we will pick up in episode three. Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out The Sinking Middle Class by David Roediger haymarketbooks.org/books/1879-the-sinking-middle-class