The Guardian | Julian Borger: Interview given by MI6 officer in 1980s was discovered in research for new documentary A first-hand account of Britains role in the 1953 coup that overthrew the elected prime minister of Iran and restored the shah to power has been published for the first time. The account by the MI6 officer who ran the operation ...

IRNA | Hossein Abolqasemi: Iran-US hostility dates back to the US-backed 1953 coup in Iran and before when Iran declared nationalization of its oil industry. Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei made the remark on Sunday, speaking to thousands of school and university students on the eve of the National Student ...

IRNA Rich in natural resources, Iran is a vast country with sensitive geopolitics and hence always in the spotlight. The West has never ceased to directly or indirectly interfere with Iran's affairs. The coup staged by the US in Iran on 19 August 1953, is a prominent example of West's interference. Though the coup looked successful ...

FNA - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said that the nationalization of the oil industry was the shining landmark in the history of the nations resistance against colonialism. Qassemi made the remarks on Wednesday on the occasion of the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry which happened back in 1951. The great Iranian ...

Tasnim Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif marked the anniversary of the nationalization of the oil industry back in 1951 and said that as in the past, the people of the country will never allow others to decide their fate. This isn't the first time that #Iran has been targeted for exercising its right to decide its own destiny: 68 yrs ...

AP |NASSER KARIMI: To understand how Iran views the United States after President Donald Trump pulled America out of the nuclear deal with world powers, one needs to look first at the past. More specifically, 65 years ago this week. Then, a 1953 U.S.-backed coup toppled Irans elected prime minister and cemented the rule of the American-backed ...

Alwaght - The US Department of State has recently formed the so-called Iran Action Group, to more seriously continue its decades-long unceasing campaign of pressure against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave the news to the media on Friday, during a press conference that saw him unveiling the head of the group. He ...

Iran Front Page - IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Sunday, August 19, 2018, and picked headlines from 13 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Several papers today marked the anniversary of the US-backed 1953 coup, which toppled the democratically-elected government ...

Iran Daily - As a historical event, the August 19, 1953 coup against the government of then democratically-elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq is inextricably interlinked with Irans ongoing situation. This is because, on the one hand, Iran is presently dealing with issues pertaining to oil exports and US sanctions. Furthermore, the coup has ...

Press TV - Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has hit out atthe US forsetting up a teamto coordinate itspressure campaign on Iran, sayingit isyet another plot to topple the Iranian government. 65 years ago today, the US overthrew the popularly elected democratic government of Dr. Mossadegh, restoring the dictatorship & subjugating Iranians ...

MNA Today marks the 1953 coup d'tat in Iran. 65 years have passed since that date. Among Iranians it is known as the 28 Mordad coup dtat. On the day, the streets of Tehran became the scene of violence and chaos by hooligans in support of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The violence was engineered by Britain and with the help of USdollars. Finally,...

Atlantic Council | PAUL R. PILLAR: The Trump administrations policy toward Iran aims for regime change. Possibly US President Donald Trump dreams of reaching some bold deal with the current leadership of Iran, but he has not laid out any feasible route to one. The administrations dominant hope instead seems to be that stepped-up economic pressure will ...

Iranian Diplomacy | Abbas Parvardeh: Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, mistrust towards foreign states, especially Western countries, has been a major characteristic and also a key challenge of Irans international diplomacy. Skepticism towards foreigners runs not only among the elite, but also the public. In the anarchic system of the international ...

Press TV- Iran is marking the 67th anniversary of the nationalization of its oil industry. As Press TV's�correspondent reports, the movement is viewed as a historic breakthrough in the country�s independence from the West.

IRNA The City Council of Tehran named one of the Streets of the city after Dr. Mohammad Mosaddeq, said the spokesman of the council on Tuesday. The renaming suggestion was passed by unanimous consensus -- 19 out of 19 votes. The street located in northern Tehran was formerly named Naft Street. In 1953, the Iranian popular prime minister was ...

Iranian Diplomacy- For all those dedicated to the attainment of real democracy, the name and life of Ebrahim Yazdi is a precious legacy worth reflecting upon because it has so much to teach us today. Among those who struggled for an Iranian future that was Islamic, genuinely democratic, and humanly decent no one was more steadfast and clear ...

Tasnim US State Department recently released a trove of confidential documents that disclosed more details of Britains role in the 1953 coup in Iran, an issue London strongly denied in the past. On June 15, 2017, the US State Department released a long-awaited volume of declassified US government documents on the 1953 coup in Iran. The publication ...

Iran Front Page- IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Saturday, August 19, and picked headlines from 16 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The top story today was the ISIS terrorist attack on Barcelona, Spain, which claimed at least 14 lives and wounded ...

August 18, The Iran Project| Ali Hassan Heidari: Augustt 19, 1953 is a negative turning point in the history of Irans relations with the United States. The US coup d'etat against Irans democratically elected government in 1953 paved the ground for the rule of the US-backed dictator on the freedom-seeking people of Iran until February of 1979. The ...

Financial Times | David J Lynch:The British government in 1952 repeatedly asked the US to join in a coup aimed at toppling Mohammad Mosaddegh, Irans prime minister, according to newly declassified State Department documents. The files offer the first officially-released confirmation of Britains expressed aim in late 1952 to persuade Washington to ...