Theatrical feature documentary on the story of Operation Ajax, the CIA/MI6 staged coup in 1953 in Iran that overthrew Prime Minister Mossadegh.Theatrical feature documentary on the story of Operation Ajax, the CIA/MI6 staged coup in 1953 in Iran that overthrew Prime Minister Mossadegh.Theatrical feature documentary on the story of Operation Ajax, the CIA/MI6 staged coup in 1953 in Iran that overthrew Prime Minister Mossadegh.
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Winston Churchill
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Allen Dulles
- Self
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Kermit Roosevelt Jr.
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as Kermit Roosevelt)
Mohammed Mossadegh
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- (archive footage)
Shapour Bakhtiar
- Self
- (archive footage)
George McGee
- Self
- (archive footage)
Julian Amery
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- (archive footage)
Abdolmajid Bayat
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- (archive footage)
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- TriviaThe rapid montage of file boxes near the end of the film is each labeled with brief details of US-backed coups and other US regime change attempts since the events of this film: 1953 - Mohammad Mossadegh - Iran; 1954 - Jacobo Árbenz - Guatemala; 1960 - Patrice Lumumba - Congo; 1961 - Rafael Trujillo - Dominican Republic; 1961 - Fidel Castro - Bay of Pigs; 1963 - Ngo Dinh Diem - South Vietnam; 1964 - Joao Goulart - Brazil; 1967 - Sukarno - Indonesia; 1973 - Salvador Allende - Chile; 1976 - Perón - Argentina; 1971 - Juan José Torres - Bolivia; 1983 - Grenada; 1960 - Kong Le - Laos; 1982-1989 - Nicaragua (Iran-Contra); 1980-1992 - El Salvador; 1965-1966 - Dominican Republic; 1988-2002 - Chavez - Venezuela; 1952 - Farouk - Egypt; 1959-present - Iraq.
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Extraordinary investigative documentary
What I knew about the overthrow of Mossadegh before seeing this amazing motion picture was limited to the CIA, the Shah, and it was about oil. I had no idea it was really about protecting British "Deepwater Horizon" Petroleum's highway robbery of Iranian oil. The whole ugly episode speaks brilliantly to the horrors of neocolonialism. The Suez War, with the US against Britain and France, three years later makes perfect sense now, not to mention the bizarre imbalance today of NATO taking aim at Russia--all while a half-dozen of its members are paying billions for Russian oil.
- Henry_Seggerman
- May 25, 2022
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- 2:1
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