Declassified British files highlight a little-known aspect of the joint MI6/CIA coup in 1953 against Iran’s democratically elected government, Mark Curtis reports. Mohammad Mossadegh. (Wikimedia) By Mark Curtis Declassified UK British officials wanted “a non-communist coup d’etat” in Iran to... read full story
"in effect an imperium in imperio [an empire within an empire] in Persia."