Mossadegh Project

Non-profit organization founded in 2004 dedicated to the study and understanding of Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh محمد مصدق

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Mossadegh & Arbenz & Lumumba & Sukarno & Allende... shirts — a primer on #CIA coup history:

#Iran (1953) | Mohammad Mossadegh
#Guatemala (1954) | Jacobo Arbenz
#Congo (1960) | Patrice Lumumba
#Indonesia (1965) | Sukarno 
#Chile (1973) | Salvador Allende 
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It’s a running theme… After the British evacuated the Abadan oil fields, the famed lions of Trafalgar Square transformed into docile lambs — “VIEW FROM WHITEHALL”, cartoon by Leslie Illingsworth in Punch, Oct. 1951
#Iran #StraitofHormuz #IranWar

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At the end of Premier Mossadegh’s trip to America in 1951, U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith opined on Iran’s oil nationalization dispute with Britain and its serious ramifications for “the mutual defense of the Western nations”.
https://t.co/iaznwdH5x3 #Iran #Tehran

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“Religious leaders are now desperate. Will attempt anything. Will try to save Islam and the Shah of Iran.” — CIA assessment after their first attempt to depose Premier Mossadegh failed.
https://t.co/HRatyQEyeg #Iran #Tehran #Islam #CIA

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After the first coup attempt misfired, Britain (Churchill, Eden, etc.) urged the Shah to broadcast an audio message far and wide to rally Iranians to rise up against the no-good Mossadegh, living embodiment of “poverty, disunity and chaos”.
https://t.co/CwaX5yYVdf #Iran #Iranian

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Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh, Iranian statesman, was born 144 years ago today, on June 16, 1882.

“If I sit silently, I have sinned.”

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#iran #mossadegh #tehran #مصدق

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Exclusive 1951 interview with Premier Mossadegh by journalist Stella K. Margold, who would later witness (and chronicle) the events of the 1953 coup in Tehran, Iran. 
https://t.co/cp8bwkPapd #Iran #IranWar‌ #Oil #Tehran

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CIA report, May 1953: Muslim leader Ayatollah Kashani and notorious terrorist group Feda’ian Islam “are reportedly joining forces against the Mossadeq government…”
https://t.co/NdmJfF2Zxg #Iran #Tehran

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The Canadian Jewish Chronicle editorialized in July 1952 that Premier Mossadegh “has entirely closed his eyes to the grievous maltreatment and oppression imposed upon Iran’s Jews.”
https://t.co/Vv4Pt9nIYS #Iran #antisemitism #Tehran #jewish #IranJews

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“Like many sovereigns, the Shah of Iran is surrounded by a host of sycophants who tell him what they think he wants to hear. It is doubtful, for example, whether he is really conscious of the growing dissatisfaction throughout the country…”
https://t.co/2E8TXdOpP5 #Iran #Pahlavi

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Top secret CIA report on Iran’s decision to close its embassy in Israel, presumptuously to “secure the political support of the Arabs” in their oil nationalization crusade (July 1951).
https://t.co/MTJHRaXRPm
#Israel #IranWar‌ #Iran #CIA #StraitofHormuz #Tehran #Zionism #Israeli

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“A RIFT IN THE black clouds of the Iranian oil dispute was reported Tues. by W. Averell Harriman (left), special presidential envoy to Iran, shown above conferring with Iranian Premier Mohammed Mossadegh. Proposals for reopening talks with Britain were sent to London…” (1951)

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@AriFleischer “Iran started this war.” 😂🤣😆

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To pacify wary nationalists abroad, U.S. Cold War propaganda aimed to distance America from the ‘imperialist’ tag. “To Asians and Africans, we are part of the white-skinned “West” from which the colonial masters of the last few centuries have come.”
https://t.co/GVHHtenv72 #Iran

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@MartinDiCaro There’s been some interest in Hollywood for years but so far nothing’s gone beyond the discussion stage. There have been brief references to the subject in films like JFK (1991), Syriana (2005), Argo (2012) and All the Money in the World (2017).

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Iranian students at Utah State on Premier Mossadegh (Time’s “Man of the Year”) — “We are of the opinion that he has been the man of his nation for the past 30 years, and is deserving, now, to be the man of the world.” (1952)
https://t.co/7sWZF4wn8s #Iran #Mossadegh #USU #Utah

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Japanese media reported: “unless the Japanese government acts to prevent the marketing of Abadan petroleum aboard the Japanese tanker Nissho Maru, now en route to Japan, “there probably will be an international oil dumping such as happened in 1925.”
https://t.co/QUFiRDhhZr #Iran

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As the Iran war drags on, a Japanese oil tanker owned by Idemitsu Kosan has made passage through the Strait of Hormuz. In 1953 the company bought and moved Iranian oil — against British objections that it was stolen property.
#Iran #StraitofHormuz #Japan #OilShock #IranWar #Oil

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Mossadegh was often labeled “dictator” by the media, but this editorial put a unique twist on it. Deeming the incorruptible Premier’s policies responsible and constructive, a Delaware paper thought a Mossadegh dictatorship might be a GOOD thing! 🤯
https://t.co/5xrr1Akxwt #Iran

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CIA propaganda shortly before the 1953 coup in Iran 🇮🇷 accusing Premier Mossadegh, who took no salary, of being a massive drug trafficker who “worships money and money alone”.
https://t.co/QBRV5boOmm #Iran #CIA #propaganda #Tehran #Iranian

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Discussing the USA’s Strait of Hormuz predicament on CNN, Gen. David H. Petraeus just said: “This cannot become the Strait of Iran”. — That’s what the White House is calling it!!!
#StraitofHormuz #IranWar #Iran #PersianGulf #Tehran #Oil