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The 1953 Coup D'Etat in Iran
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The United States sponsored coup d'etat in Iran of August 19, 1953, has emerged as a critical event in postwar world history as discussed by the authors and contributed greatly to the 1978-1979 Iranian revolution.Abstract:
In retrospect, the United States sponsored coup d'etat in Iran of August 19, 1953, has emerged as a critical event in postwar world history The government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq which was ousted in the coup was the last popular, democratically oriented government to hold office in Iran The regime replacing it was a dictatorship that suppressed all forms of popular political activity, producing tensions that contributed greatly to the 1978–1979 Iranian revolution If Mosaddeq had not been overthrown, the revolution might not have occurred The 1953 coup also marked the first peacetime use of covert action by the United States to overthrow a foreign government As such, it was an important precedent for events like the 1954 coup in Guatemala and the 1973 overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile, and made the United States a key target of the Iranian revolutionread more
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Iran between two revolutions
TL;DR: Abrahamian et al. as mentioned in this paper studied the emergence of horizontal divisions, or socioeconomic classes, in a country with strong vertical divisions based on ethnicity, religious ideology, and regional particularism.
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Iran; the new imperialism in action
TL;DR: In this article, the new imperialism in action in Iran is discussed. But the focus is on Iran's new imperialism, and not Iran's military capabilities, as opposed to Iran's economy.