{"product_id":"9780230579279","title":"Iran and the CIA: The Fall of Mosaddeq Revisited","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the early 1950s the Prime Minister of Iran, Doctor Mohammad Mosaddeq, shook the world when he nationalized the British-run oil industries operating in his country. At the time, Britain was still a global power and Mossadeq a frail, yet popular, secular leader.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 19th August 1953, Mosaddeq was removed from office in a series of events that changed the course of Iranian history and still haunts the nation and its people today. For over half a century, popular wisdom has attributed these dramatic events to foul play by the CIA and its British allies, creating a myth of CIA power and success that has mesmerized opinion ever since and cast a shadow over Iran's continuingly troubled relations with the USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis pathbreaking study unearths compelling new evidence to suggest a different version of events, revealing that Mosaddeq's fall actually took Washington and London by complete surprise. Britain and the US did indeed collaborate in a plot to remove Mosaddeq but when they put their plan into action, it failed to ignite. Three days later however, Mosaddeq was ousted, a victim less of external agitation than of internal Iranian politics and the actions of prominent clerics, most notably the then grand Shi'ite Marja, Ayatollah Boroujerdi.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007466324208,"sku":"9780230579279","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780230579279_p0.jpg?v=1763678920","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780230579279","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}