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Iran and the CIA

The Fall of Mosaddeq Revisited

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  1. Darioush Bayandor
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Darioush Bayandor
    Pages 1-10

  3. The Context

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    Pages 11-26

  4. The Advent of Mosaddeq and the Oil Crisis

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    Pages 27-51

  5. Mosaddeq’s Second Government, July 1952 to August 1953

    • Darioush Bayandor
    Pages 52-73

  6. The Downslide

    • Darioush Bayandor
    Pages 74-97

  7. The Downfall

    • Darioush Bayandor
    Pages 98-117

  8. The Anatomy of 19 August

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    Pages 118-146

  9. Where Did the Spark Come From?

    • Darioush Bayandor
    Pages 147-154

  10. Summary and Conclusions

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    Pages 155-175

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 176-247
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In the early 1950s, frail septuagenarian prime minister of Iran, Doctor Mohammad Mosaddeq, shook the world - challenging Britain by nationalizing Iran's British-run oil industries. In August 1953 he was overthrown. Revisiting these events with astonishing new evidence, this book challenges the conventionally-held theory of foul play by the CIA.

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'The author has tackled a subject of great importance, infused with emotions and obscured by political manipulation, objectively and with care, using all available sources and to put the events in their proper context. The book deserves a wide audience and should do much to bring this episode into proper perspective. In short, a first-rate scholarly contribution which has implications for contemporary politics.'- Shahram Chubin, Director of Studies, Geneva Centre for Security Policy

'This is an important and beautifully balanced study of the overthrow of Iran's Prime Minister Mosaddeq. For over fifty years the literature has concentrated on the role of CIA and British intelligence. The author has now revealed the critical participation of important Iranian individuals and political factions.'- Charles Naas, former Director, US-Iranian Affairs at the State Department, Washington and Minister-Chargé d' Affaires in Tehran 1977-79

'It is helpful to be reminded that history often needs re-examining.' - The Economist

'This is an interesting and provocative book.' - Hugh Arbuthnott, Asian Affairs

About the author

DARIOUSH BAYANDOR is currently an Iran analyst and historian living in Switzerland. Born Iranian, the author held diplomatic posts in New York and Tehran and was a lecturer on international law, diplomacy and international institutions in Tehran University, the National University of Tehran as well as in the diplomatic school of the foreign ministry prior to the Islamic Revolution. He joined the United Nations in 1980 where he notably headed several UN humanitarian offices in different continents, stretching over a twenty-year period.

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