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With every passing day word got around and eventually word got to Mossadegh
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With every passing day word got around and eventually word got to Mossadegh

With every passing day word got around and eventually word got to Mossadegh

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With every passing day word got around and eventually word got to Mossadegh.
Duration
4 seconds
Views
26
Timestamp in Movie
01:21:38
Uploaded
Jun 13, 2025
Genres
documentary, history
Production
Amirani Media

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Theatrical feature documentary on the story of Operation Ajax, the CIA/MI6 staged coup in 1953 in Iran that overthrew Prime Minister Mossadegh.
He heard it because they had a - Coup 53 00:09
He heard it because they had a
We started talking to the Rashidians about - Coup 53 00:06
We started talking to the Rashidians about
They were an extraordinary bunch of brothers because none of them - Coup 53 00:05
They were an extraordinary bunch of brothers because none of...
They were late 30s, early 40s fascinated by the idea of - Coup 53 00:11
They were late 30s, early 40s fascinated by the idea of
We had issued the Rashidians with - Coup 53 00:06
We had issued the Rashidians with
They had a very wide range of contacts - Coup 53 00:07
They had a very wide range of contacts
They also had contacts with the Ayatollahs - Coup 53 00:13
They also had contacts with the Ayatollahs
These are the tough boys and Ayatollah Kashani controlled some of them. - Coup 53 00:04
These are the tough boys and Ayatollah Kashani controlled...
You could use them as a street mob with the blessing of a Kashani and then - Coup 53 00:06
You could use them as a street mob with the blessing of a...
When it first went wrong, I heard about it from Roosevelt - Coup 53 00:06
When it first went wrong, I heard about it from Roosevelt
First thing I heard about the coup was on the radio there at ford pinning. - Coup 53 00:05
First thing I heard about the coup was on the radio there at...
There had been an attempted coup in Iran - Coup 53 00:05
There had been an attempted coup in Iran
And so, I gulped once and I looked at my wife and I said - Coup 53 00:07
And so, I gulped once and I looked at my wife and I said
It is from the 16th of August 1953 - Coup 53 00:09
It is from the 16th of August 1953
Attention is focused once again on the Middle East - Coup 53 00:06
Attention is focused once again on the Middle East
Forced to flee his palace in Tehran, - Coup 53 00:13
Forced to flee his palace in Tehran,
There was I think great contempt - Coup 53 00:08
There was I think great contempt
Of course, he fled his own country with his wife queen Soraya. - Coup 53 00:05
Of course, he fled his own country with his wife queen...
They flee to Rome, - Coup 53 00:20
They flee to Rome,
So, there is great intrigue going on at Rome - Coup 53 00:08
So, there is great intrigue going on at Rome