Seven decades of US regime change efforts: What have they achieved?
More than seven decades after the United States helped to overthrow Iran’s elected prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh, in 1953, the two countries are again locking horns. The ongoing war between Washington and Tehran began when the US and Israel launched attacks across Iran on February 28, claiming Tehran was on the cusp of acquiring nuclear weapons.
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- Fact 1: More than seven decades after the United States helped to overthrow Iran’s elected prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh, in 1953, the two countries are again locking horns.
- Fact 2: The ongoing war between Washington and Tehran began when the US and Israel launched attacks across Iran on February 28, claiming Tehran was on the cusp of acquiring nuclear weapons.
- Fact 3: Since Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, led by former Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini, overthrew the US-backed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Washington has repeatedly sought to weaken the government in Tehran.
- Fact 4: How the US helped restore the shah to power in 1953 In 1953, the US’s CIA worked with the United Kingdom to overthrow Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh after he nationalised the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, something the Western powers saw as going against their interests.
More than seven decades after the United States helped to overthrow Iran’s elected prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh, in 1953, the two countries are again locking horns. The ongoing war between Washington and Tehran began when the US and Israel launched attacks across Iran on February 28, claiming Tehran was on the cusp of acquiring nuclear weapons.
Iran’s top negotiator declares victory in war against the US and Israel Trump says Iran will not make the deal he believes is necessary Why has Trump threatened to bomb Oman – for a second time? The war has been marked by fighting across the region, including Iranian retaliatory attacks on Gulf states. The conflict has also spilled into Lebanon, where Israel says it is targeting strongholds of the Iran-backed group Hezbollah, and Yemen, where the Iran-backed Houthis are currently attacking Saudi-linked ships in the Red Sea.
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Original source: Al Jazeera
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