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148174
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Early in the afternoon of August 26, 1953, a 37-year old CIA officer, Kermit “Kim” Roosevelt, was ushered quietly into Number 10, Downing Street. Led to a living room by a military aide, Roosevelt found the prime minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill, lying in a bed, propped up by pillows. The veteran PM had recently suffered a stroke and was clearly in bad shape. “He had great difficulty in hearing; occasional difficulty in articulating; and apparent difficulty seeing to his left,”
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181721
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The 1953 coup in Iran that toppled the nationalist Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq stands as one of the most controversial episodes of the Cold War. It is often referred to as the original sin where U.S. meddling poisoned relations between the two sides and even made the Islamist revolution of 1979 possible. But recent evidence suggests that America's role in the coup was a minor one and the key actors determining the course of events were the Iranians themselves. It was Iranian generals, clerics and everyday citizens who put an end to Mossadeq's premiership. All the Western lamentations aside, this was very much an Iranian affair.
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