The GlobaL Story: Operation Ajax: The CIA’s Iran coup
The 1953 CIA-led coup in Iran, known as Operation Ajax, overthrew Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and restored the Shah to power, setting in motion decades of anti-American sentiment and shaping U.S.-Iran relations. Though initially a British initiative, the U.S. adopted it as a Cold Wa
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