Icke / Tier X — Opposition, Resistance & Targets / person
Mohammed Mossadegh
Where each worldview places it
The nationalist Prime Minister of Iran who tried to stop his country's exploitation by nationalising oil, and was removed in 1953 by a coup of British Intelligence and the CIA[1].
- Controls / directs
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- Answers to / controlled by
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- Dates
- April 1951 (becomes prime minister)
- August 1953 (removed)[2]
- Places
- Key events
- 1951: "He instituted a policy of nationalising all oil production", defying the Seven Sisters
- the British Government imposed "an economic stranglehold on Iran"[2]
- August 1953: "a coup, organised by British Intelligence and the CIA ... removed Mossadegh" (Operation AJAX), with Averell Harriman as "mediator" and the Dulles brothers involved[2]
- Author's claims · 3
- 01Lord Victor Rothschild "was involved along with the CIA's James Jesus Angleton, in the overthrow of the Iranian leader, Mohammed Mossadegh, in 1953"[3].
- 02The coup was followed by the creation of SAVAK with Mossad[2].
- 03"Mossedagh wanted to stop the exploitation of his country" and "the Anglo-American Elite conspired against him"[4].