Why did the 1953 Coup Happen?

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Primary Sources

Historical Division, Joint Secretariat, Joint Chiefs of Staff, The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Development of US Policy Toward Iran 1946-1978, (1980)

Anthony Eden, The Memoirs of Anthony Eden: Full Circle, (1960)

Dean Acheson, Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department, (1969)

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Answer to History, (1980)

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mandate for Change 1953-1956; The White House Years: A Personal Account, (1963)

Donald Wilber, Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq of Iran, November 1952 - August 1953, (1954)

Secondary Sources

Ervand Abrahamiam, The Coup: 1953, The CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S-Iranian Relations, (2013)

Stephen Kinzer, All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, (2008)

Abbas Amant, Iran: A Modern History, (2017)

Barry Rubin, Paved with Good Intentions: The American Experience in Iran, (1980)

Michael Oren, Power, Faith, and Fantasy: American in the Middle East 1776 to the Present, (2011)

Darioush Bayandor, Iran and the CIA: The Fall of Mosaddeq Revisited, (2010)

Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power, (2011)

Douglas Little, American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East Since 1945, (2002)

Michael Axworthy, A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind, (2008)

Footnotes

[1] Abrahamiam, Coup, p. 62-4

[2] Kinzer, p. 80-2, Abrahamiam, Coup, p. 64-74

[3] Amant, p. 528-37, Abrahamiam, Coup, p. 74-9

[4] Rubin, p. 58-61

[5] Kinzer, p. 89-93

[6] Oren, p. 506-9, Bayandor, p. 35-9

[7] Yergin, p. 439-40, Joint Chiefs, p. 21-3, Bayandor, p. 33-5, Little, p. 56-7

[8] Eden, p. 215-7, Kinzer, p. 93-7

[9] Kinzer, p. 93-7

[10] Yergin, p. 444-5, Kinzer, p. 93-7, Amant, p. 528-37, Axworthy, p. 231-6

[11] Acheson, p. 506-8, Kinzer, p. 97-101

[12] Rubin, p. 63-7, Yergin, p. 440-3

[13] Rubin, p. 67-71, Eden, p. 215-7

[14] Acheson, p. 508-11, Yergin, p. 440-3

[15] Yergin, p. 444-5

[16] Acheson, p. 503-11

[17] Bayandor, p. 43-8

[18] Yergin, p. 446-7

[19] Yergin, p. 447-8, Bayandor, p. 48-9

[20] Eden, p. 218-225, Bayandor, p. 43-8

[21] Bayandor, p. 50-6, Amant, p. 528-41

[22] Pahlavi, p. 86-8, Axworthy, p. 231-6, Bayandor, p. 52-6, Rubin, p. 71-4

[23] Bayandor, p. 52-6, Amant, p. 537-41

[24] Acheson, p. 679-81, Yergin, p. 445-6, Rubin, p. 61-3, 71-4

[25] Acheson, p. 599-600, Eden, p. 226-8

[26] Bayandor, p. 52-6, 62-4, Amant, p. 541-4, Pahlavi, p. 86-8

[27] Axworthy, p. 231-6, Rubin, p. 71-4

[28] Bayandor, p. 59-62, Rubin, p. 74-77

[29] Eden, p. 228-32, Acheson, p. 679-81

[30] Acheson, p. 681-4, Rubin, p. 74-7

[31] Kinzer, p. 2-5, Acheson, p. 684-5

[32] Eisenhower, p. 159-61

[33] Eisenhower, p. 130, Little, p. 56-7

[34] Eden, p. 232-6

[35] Eisenhower, p. 161-4, Rubin, p. 79-84

[36] Bayandor, p. 80-4

[37] Eden, p. 228-32, Acheson, p. 684-5, Amant, p. 541-4

[38] Rubin, p. 78-9, Bayandor, p. 74-8

[39] Pahlavi, p. 88, Eden, p. 228-32, Acheson, p. 684-5

[40] Bayandor, p. 74-8

[41] Wilber, p. 1-4

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