On this day, August 19, 1953 the governments of the United States of America and the United Kingdom overturned the legally elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran.
MI6 and the CIA, using immoral, illegal and brutal tactics reinstated the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to power in Iran.
Mosaddegh was a fine statesman, lawyer and parliamentarian. His administration introduced a range of social and political measures such as social security, land reforms and higher taxes, including the introduction of taxation of the rent on land.
But his government nationalised the Iranian oil industry. The British and Americans were having none of it.
Mosaddegh was imprisoned for three years, then put under house arrest until his death and was buried in his own home so as to prevent a political furor.
Have the British and American governments ever apologised for the terrible wrong they did to the Iranian people?
In 2013, the US government formally acknowledged its role in the coup, as a part of its foreign policy initiatives.
How many empires have put the boots of poor soldiers on the soil of Afghanistan?
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