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Echoes of 1953: The Coup That Changed Iran

19 min · 20 jun 2025
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What happens when a foreign power topples a democracy to protect its own interests? In Echoes of 1953, we revisit the CIA- and MI6-led coup that overthrew Iran’s Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh—replacing democracy with dictatorship, and setting the stage for decades of mistrust, revolution, and unrest. This is the story of oil, empire, and unintended consequences—and how one coup reshaped a nation.

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