Mohammad Mosaddegh
Author and former Prime Minister of IranWikipedia
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Sep 13, 2026
Robert HarwardGUEST
So then when we make those, they go back.
Corbyn TrentGUEST
They go back further, like in 53, when we overthrow the elected leader of Iran, right? And we install the Shah, right? Mosaddegh, right? And then, of course, we don't like people that are authoritarian, but, of course, the Shah, you know, he ruled with an authoritarian iron fist, right? And the people in that community, many of them students and young people, decided that they had had enough and they were ready to revolt.
Corbyn TrentGUEST
So I feel like that part of what we've done is fuel radical Islamic...
Leland VittertHOST
Or since you've lived in the Middle East a lot longer than I did, I only did four years there, you grew up there.
James MontagueGUEST
And it's Christian Tate, our design director, who turned the story on its head because we had so many different types of stories.
James MontagueGUEST
And like you said, we could have gone back and started in 1953 with the CIA-backed overthrow of Mossadegh and how then the Shah comes to power, the 79 revolution.
James MontagueGUEST
You had so many different things to bring out.
James MontagueGUEST
And we were just throwing so many ideas at Chris.
Henry HakamakiHOST
I might as well finish this point.
Henry HakamakiHOST
For example, they do bring up the 53 coup against Mossadegh in this letter, and they correctly do so.
Henry HakamakiHOST
The coup was a crime against Iranian sovereignty and was to ensure that Iran would remain under the boot of imperialism.
Henry HakamakiHOST
However, and this is very notable, despite the fact that they mentioned the 53 coup, they do not mention in this letter anywhere else that the United States and the United Kingdom have been meddling with in Iran ever since then.
Ben MacintyreGUEST
I mean, this, of course, dates back to, well, a very long time, to Victorian times.
Ben MacintyreGUEST
But it's also the direct result of the Mossadegh coup in 1953 when Iran's democratically elected prime minister was overthrown by an MI6 attack.
Ben MacintyreGUEST
and CIA plot to install the Shah.
Ben MacintyreGUEST
So there is this belief in Iran, and it persists today that whenever something mysterious happens, it's the English, Inglis.
Marcus SommersHOST
I'm listening to the socialist history.
Marcus SommersHOST
They covered operation Ajax, which was, um, the CIA and, um, um, MI6 overthrowing Mosaddegh in Iran.
Marcus SommersHOST
Oh yeah.
Marcus SommersHOST
Operation Mongoose, which was Washington secret war on Cuba.
Ebrahim RasoolGUEST
1948, the establishment of the State of Israel, right up till today, Intifadas, Arab-Israeli wars, genocide.
Ebrahim RasoolGUEST
Then you've got to look at 1953, the coup d'etat against Mossadegh, the 1979 coup, Islamic Revolution and the current war that we are in today.
Ebrahim RasoolGUEST
We can go to 1962 and the process of decolonization in Algeria and the installation after colonization of strongmen that rule by the Mughabarat and Diktat and the conditions in the Arab world that lead to this.
Ebrahim RasoolGUEST
Then you've got to look at Afghanistan 1, 2, 3. with the Soviet Union and the arming of the Mujahideen, the influx of 40,000 Arab volunteers into the fight against the Soviet Union, the Charlie Wilson arming of those Mujahideen, the fundraising for them in the United States, and then the withdrawal of the United States, and what do you do with this 40,000 people? And they become Al-Qaeda.
OrianaHOST
The prime minister was a soldier, practical and obedient, and Shepard had believed that with enough pressure, he could hold the line.
OrianaHOST
Then, Rasmara was shot in the street, and Mohammad Mosaddegh stepped into the void.
OrianaHOST
Shepard had tried everything he could think of in the two weeks that followed.
OrianaHOST
He had met with the Shah, urged him to use his influence, persuaded him to lean on the Conservative deputies.
OrianaHOST
The Shah, trying to avert the shutdown, agreed.
OrianaHOST
Zia's confirmation vote was scheduled for April 28, 1951, on the Majlis floor.
OrianaHOST
When the Majlis convened, all attention turned to one man, Mosaddegh.
OrianaHOST
In just a few months, everything had changed for him.
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Iran held free democratic elections.
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They chose Mohammad Mosaddegh as their prime minister.
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Mosaddegh did not start by nationalizing anything.
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He started by asking a simple question.
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Now here is something most Americans were never taught.
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Iran was a democracy, a real democracy, free elections, a free press, a parliament, and a prime minister chosen by the people.
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Mohammad Mosaddegh was not a dictator.
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He was not a warlord.
Scott HibbardGUEST
And in a way, we're kind of back where we started from, this idea that you can kind of bomb your way or kill your way out of a problem.
Ian MastersHOST
Well, isn't it all in many ways about oil? And if you go back to the coup against Mossadegh, that was all about oil.
Ian MastersHOST
The deal with the Saudi Arabians is an interesting history there with Harry Sir John Philby, who was this eccentric British character, who was the translator for Ibn Saud, the founder of Saudi Arabia.
Ian MastersHOST
When the Saudi tribesmen had captured these oil drillers from Chevron oil in the desert, letting off explosives, looking for oil.
TruthTellerGUEST
Because they still have recollections, they reminisce about what life was like before 1979 and the revolution that took place then.
TruthTellerGUEST
Because they were supposedly free then from 1953. you know, when they installed the Shah following the coup of Dr. Mossadegh who nationalized Iranian oil up until 1979.
TruthTellerGUEST
If only we could relive those memories and, you know, everything would be in harmony again.
TruthTellerGUEST
We had great relations with the U.S., with Israel, no sanctions and 50-50 deal on oil and they gradually eventually took over the oil company then.
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