Posted on December 29th, 2020
KAMALIKA PIERIS
The US is well known for its political and
military interventions. USA started to meddle in the politics of other
countries in the 1950s. The first coup
was in 1953. This was in Iran where the duly elected and highly popular
Mossadegh was removed and the Shah of Iran installed. Mossadegh was going to nationalise
British oil assets in Iran. Anglo
Iranian Oil Company had full control of
all the Iranian oil, which it was pumping and taking away. The coup was carried
out by U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with Britain’s MI6 helping. The Shah was very unpopular. He ruled cruelly