SHANA -- Born in 1908, Irans petroleum industry went through ups and downs during the first four decades of its life. Throughout a forty-year period, oil-rich areas had been discovered in southwestern Iran, oil activities had expanded throughout World War I (WWI) and Iran had experienced a new monarchy system. In the wake of the outbreak of WWII,...

Press TV has interviewed Webster Griffin Tarpley, an author and historian, and Richard Weitz, an expert at Wikistrat, both in Washington, to discuss the 1953 US-led coup d'tat in Iran that thwarted the plans by then-Prime Minister Mohammad Mosadeq to nationalize the countrys oil. Tarpley says the coup against Mosadeq was the prelude totodays color ...

[caption id="attachment_137809" align="alignright" width="200"] Former Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh steps off a plane in late August 1953. He was imprisoned for three years and put under house arrest until his death in 1967.[/caption] The US State Department has blocked the publication of a documentary history of the CIA-backed overthrow ...

TEHRAN, Aug. 19 (MNA) US and UK intelligence agencies had hatched a coup dtat in 1953 to topple Iran's first democratically-elected government and its popular prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh. In different occasions, the American officials have admitted their country's role in 1953's coup d'tat in Iran. Sixty one years ago, the United States ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Mehdi Hosseini, director of the Iranian Oil Ministry-appointed committee tasked with revising oil contracts to make them more attractive, elaborates on the framework of Iran's new oil contracts. The following is the third and final part of the interview with Mr. Hosseini on the revision of Iran's oil contracts. Q: It is said that ...

From the CIA-orchestrated overthrow of Iran's prime minister in 1953 to Friday's phone call between Presidents Obama and Rouhani, BBC News looks at 60 years of tricky relations between Iran and the US.   1953: Overthrow of Mossadeq US and British intelligence agencies orchestrate a coup to oust Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister,...

Prominent American academician Noam Chomsky has lashed out at the United States for its continued policy of torturing the Iranian nation over the past six decades. For the past 60 years, not a day has passed in which the US has not been torturing Iranians, Chomsky said in a Wednesday interview with Democracy Now. Thats 60 years, right now, began ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran on Tuesday called on the US Intelligence Agency (CIA) to release all its documents on the role it played in the 1953 Iran coup against the democratically-elected Iranian Prime Minister, Mohammad Mosaddeq. On August 15, 1953, the British and US intelligence agencies initiated a coup by the Iranian military (known as 28 Mordad ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian parliament speaker communicated a recently-approved bill to ask the government to take the necessary measures to file a lawsuit against the US and British governments for their roles in the 1953 coup against the legal government of prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq. The law stipulates that as the US Central Intelligence ...

Irans Majlis has approved the provisions of a bill that obliges the Iranian administration to assess and follow up ways of suing the US government for its involvement in the 1953 coup dtat in the country. In their Sunday open session, the Iranian parliamentarians approved the first and second articles of the bill. Under the first article, the Iranian ...

The US adopts antagonistic policies towards sovereign governments as it merely favors interaction with submissive ruling systems across the world, a political analyst tellsPress TV. In a Tuesday interview, Randy Short alluded to the recent CIA declassification of a document that confirms Washingtons role in the 1953 coup against the democratically-...

Pictures below show�home of democratically-elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosadeq who was overthrown in 1953 coup. By Fararu

A political analyst says the United States fomented the 1953 coup against Irans then democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq in an attempt to maintain its control over the Iranian oil. William Beeman, professor at University of Minnesota, told Press TV on Tuesday that the main reason behind the US-engineered coup dtat against the Iranian ...

A political commentator says the CIA acknowledgement of its role in the 1953 coup against the democratically-elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq is the tip of the iceberg in the US spying agencys anti-Iran plots. This admission is just the tip of the iceberg because the US has been actively involved in coup and regime change campaigns ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - British diplomats tried to convince their US counterparts to suppress very embarrassing details of MI6s role in the 1953 coup in Iran, new documents revealed. Foreign Office records from 35 years ago show elaborate efforts by the British embassy in Washington to keep secret Britains part in the overthrow of Irans democratically-...

The UK spying agencies, the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6) were founded in October 1909 as a single body known as the Secret Service Bureau, which was initially staffed by only 2 officers. MI5 was headed by an Army captain Vernon Kell and MI6 had the 50-year-old Royal Navy Commander Mansfield Cumming as its ...

[caption id="attachment_29483" align="alignright" width="210"] A view of Iran Majlis[/caption] Iranian lawmakers have slammed the shameful and inhumane 1953 coup against the government of then Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosadeq by the United States and Britain. Today, everyone knows that cutting the hands of oil-thirsty superpowers [off Irans ...

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has published a document that for the first time confirms Washingtons role in the 1953 coup dtat against the democratically-elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosadeq. The open acknowledgment by the US intelligence community comes some six decades after the British- and American-backed military overthrow. "The ...