Iran Holds 1st Trial Session on CIA and MI6-Orchestrated 1953 coup
The Iranian judiciary started the trial of the United States administration and American officials over the August 1953 coup against the government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh.
On the occasion of the 71st anniversary of the Washington-orchestrated coup, the first session of the trial was held in Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Judicial Complex on Sunday. The court will hear a lawsuit filed by more than 400,000 Iranians against six American natural persons and legal enteritis over their role in the ousting of Mossadegh that consolidated the rule of the pro-Western monarch, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, until the 1979 Islamic Revolution.Lawyer Shami Aghdam, representing the defendants, said documents show the US spy agency CIA, with the help of its British counterpart MI6, planned the coup by using internal and external agents against the legitimate government of Iran in August 1953.It added Washington and London “designed the military coup through violating international principles and rules, and interfering in the internal affairs of Iran, intending to maintain their influence and power in the government, securing their interests and looting the country’s property".It noted that the coup was perpetrated by military and political figures affiliated with the US and the UK governments, as well as thugs.“In fact, the coup marked the beginning of the US complete * over Iran to make it more dependent than before and prevent its independence and progress. The * lasted for more than 25 years and inflicted costs, as well as material and spiritual damage, on the country and the nation," Shami Aghdam stated.
In August 1953, the British and American intelligence agencies initiated a coup by the Iranian military, setting off a series of events, including riots in the streets of the capital Tehran, which led to the overthrow and detention of Mossadegh.Mossadegh, who was convicted of treason by a court martial, served three years in solitary confinement and then died under house arrest in 1967.His overthrow, which is still given as a reason for Iranians' mistrust of Washington and London, consolidated the Shah's rule for the following 26 years until the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, led by Imam Khomeini, which toppled the US-backed monarchy.The Iranian premier had played a key role in the country’s 1951 movement that resulted in the nationalization of Iran’s oil industry, which had been mainly controlled by the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), now known as BP.Experts say the 1953 coup, known as the 28 Mordad coup, was aimed at making sure the Iranian monarchy would safeguard the West's oil interests in the country.
In 2013 and sixty years after the overthrow of Mossadegh, a declassified CIA document acknowledges that the agency was involved in the 1953 coup.The documents, declassified in 2011 and given to George Washington University research group under the Freedom of Information Act, come from the CIA’s internal history of Iran from the mid-1970s and paint a detailed picture of how the CIA worked to oust Mossadegh.Former President Barack Obama had acknowledged the United States’ involvement in the coup during a 2009 speech in Cairo.“In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government,” he stated.
In 2017, the US State Department released a trove of confidential documents that disclosed more details of Britain’s role in the 1953 coup, an issue London strongly dismissed in the past.The publication of the documents put an end to decades of internal debates and public controversy after a previous official collection omitted all references to the role of American and British intelligence in the ouster of the government of Mossadegh.London had previously denied any role in the coup but the new evidence confirmed Britain’s involvement in it.#Iran#US#UK
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