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Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup
Patriot of Persia Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic AngloAmerican Coup
Author: Christopher de Bellaigue
On August 19, 1953, the American and British intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup in Iran against a cussed, bedridden seventy-two-year-old man. His name was Muhammad Mossadegh, and his crimes had been to flirt with communism and to nationalize his country's oil industry, which for forty years had been in British hands. To Winston Chur...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780061844706
ISBN-10: 0061844705
Publication Date: 5/15/2012
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Harper
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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My family along with 30,000 Americans lived in Tehran prior to the Islamic uprising the end of 1978. We heard bits of information about Mossadegh from our Iranian acquaintances but nothing in depth about the loss of his leadership in favor of the Shah. This volume supplies that missing information in a highly engaging narrative. I now understand the undercurrent of love for his leadership that I sensed at the time.
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I am so glad that I read this book. I was in Tehran for only a few days in 1964 and was struck by the beauty of the city, and the friendliness of the people. I had no idea that this was going on in that country at the time. It is an amazing history of the events that changed the future of Iran forever.


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