1953 Iranian Coup d’Etat
The study of this event goes back to the post-WWII discussions over Iranian oil. For many years, whilst being politically involved in Iran, the US had not pursued comprehensive economic ties. For decades, Iran had hosted oil concessions owned by the USSR and the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (Britain), and these two powers held significant power in the region. They alone controlled most of Iran's oil reserves, a vital key to Iranian economic stability and strength. Although Iran only received around 16% of the revenue from the oil extracted by these two institutions, their resistance to this maltreatment was undermined by turbulent politics and incessant promises and treaties acknowledging Iranian ............ made and …show more content…
However, throughout the 1990's relations between the two had soured as links between the Iraqi government and terrorist groups were alleged. These included links between Iraq and Al-Qaeda. what further soured the links was the production of weapons of mass destruction by the Iraqi military, and their refusal to allow UN inspectors to access these military sites. In 1996 the CIA was involved in a failed coup to topple Saddam Hussein, and diplomatic relations between the two nations soured completely. In the same way as they sought to topple Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran in 1953, they sought to rid Iraq of the Ba'athist government, installing a pro-Western power in the Middle East.
In May 1991 President Bush signed a presidential directive instructing the CIA to work to create conditions to allow for the removal of Hussein. This included working alongside anti-Hussein groups within Iraq, one of which was the Iraqi National Congress. The group received millions of covert dollar in funding each year from the CIA. In 1998, following the passing of the Iraq Liberation Act, the group received over US$ 8 million in public funding from the …show more content…
The joint U.S.-British operation ended Iran's drive to assert sovereign control over its own resources and helped put an end to a vibrant chapter in the history of the country's nationalist and democratic movements. These consequences resonated with dramatic effect in later years. When the Shah finally fell in 1979, memories of the U.S. intervention in 1953, which made possible the monarch's subsequent, and increasingly unpopular, 25-year reign intensified the anti-American character of the revolution in the minds of many Iranians." (Gasiorowski & Byrne,
The study of this event goes back to the post-WWII discussions over Iranian oil. For many years, whilst being politically involved in Iran, the US had not pursued comprehensive economic ties. For decades, Iran had hosted oil concessions owned by the USSR and the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (Britain), and these two powers held significant power in the region. They alone controlled most of Iran's oil reserves, a vital key to Iranian economic stability and strength. Although Iran only received around 16% of the revenue from the oil extracted by these two institutions, their resistance to this maltreatment was undermined by turbulent politics and incessant promises and treaties acknowledging Iranian ............ made and …show more content…
However, throughout the 1990's relations between the two had soured as links between the Iraqi government and terrorist groups were alleged. These included links between Iraq and Al-Qaeda. what further soured the links was the production of weapons of mass destruction by the Iraqi military, and their refusal to allow UN inspectors to access these military sites. In 1996 the CIA was involved in a failed coup to topple Saddam Hussein, and diplomatic relations between the two nations soured completely. In the same way as they sought to topple Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran in 1953, they sought to rid Iraq of the Ba'athist government, installing a pro-Western power in the Middle East.
In May 1991 President Bush signed a presidential directive instructing the CIA to work to create conditions to allow for the removal of Hussein. This included working alongside anti-Hussein groups within Iraq, one of which was the Iraqi National Congress. The group received millions of covert dollar in funding each year from the CIA. In 1998, following the passing of the Iraq Liberation Act, the group received over US$ 8 million in public funding from the …show more content…
The joint U.S.-British operation ended Iran's drive to assert sovereign control over its own resources and helped put an end to a vibrant chapter in the history of the country's nationalist and democratic movements. These consequences resonated with dramatic effect in later years. When the Shah finally fell in 1979, memories of the U.S. intervention in 1953, which made possible the monarch's subsequent, and increasingly unpopular, 25-year reign intensified the anti-American character of the revolution in the minds of many Iranians." (Gasiorowski & Byrne,