The C I A's Roll in the Cup

British intelligence helped overthrow the shaw ovaran government in 19 53. They spent hundreds of thousands of dollars bribing journalists, clerics and even aranian parliament members themselves to go along with the plot. In the end, the operation was a success. Mosedek was driven from power. The western backe shaw ruled the country with the iron fist of his feared secret police for the next 25 years. But the eclipse of the old british empire by the new American super power became most obvious in egypt during the suez crisis of 19 56.