Stephen Kinzer's book, "All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror," tells the story of the overthrow of Iran's democratically elected leader, Muhammad Mosaddeq, by the CIA and the British MI6 in 1953. The CIA bribed Iranian government officials, businessmen and reporters, and paid Iranians to demonstrate in the streets.

The 1953 street demonstrations, together with the Cold War claim that the United States had to grab Iran before the Soviets did ...

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