Mossadegh

Mossadegh had not overplayed his hand and dissolved Parliament and the Shah had not delivered an address from Baghdad announcing that he had signed the decrees. Mossadegh, confident that he had succeeded in foiling the coup had recalled many of the troops he had assigned to guard the city of Tehran, and the CIA and General Zahedi took advantage of this fact to launch a sneak attack against Mossadegh. This attack was to be carried out on 19 August and on this day, finally, General Zahedi and his supporters achieved success and rounded up the embattled prime minister and his supporters and gained control of the government. However, while the CIA and British intelligence celebrated the overthrow of Mossadegh and the achievement of their diverse objectives, they failed to see the repercussions wounding a deeply proud nation. Thus, the bitter seeds of resentment and distrust that they sowed became a part of Iranian national identity and Mossadegh became an icon of anti-imperialism.
Consequences
The Shah’s subsequent subservience to the U.S. and Britain did little to allay the trepidation of the Iranian people. His cave-in to Western demands came back to haunt him in 1963 when an upcoming Islamic religious leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, denounced the Shah’s reformation programs designed to give his regime a liberal and …show more content…
and Iran’s cultural way of thinking. According to Bowden, the U.S. saw the increased need to protect the embassy as merely a defensive posture, while the Iranians viewed it with increasing suspicion and resented the embassy as a symbol of the imperialist West. This opinion of the West and the U.S. was only further enflamed when the Shah of Iran, who suffered from cancer, was permitted to receive treatment in the United