Operation Ajax: CIA Oil Coup in Iran - COLD WAR 

The Cold War: this was a great and well documented video. Thanks for sharing it! Could you also make a video about "Shapour Bakhtiar", who was one of the prominent roles in promoting democracy and constitutional monarchy in Iran?

@@nimbo9492 Shapour Bakhtiar The Just whom Khomeini had his goons assassinate in Paris. Ayatollah Kazem Shariatmadari The Just whom Khomeini had his goons keep under house arrest and then murder in 1986. The Ayatollah was also the savior of Khomeini in 1963 when the Shah condemned the latter to death. & Sadegh Ghotbzadegh the babooshlicking sycophant groveling to Khomeini, became the latter's adopted son & then was made foreign affairs minister in Khomeini's regime, couldn't follow & then was executed on Khomeini's orders, fully deserving what he got.

hello sir with respect could you please mention the name of venezuela oil deal which mosadagh had offered based on it?

Ayatollah behbahani passed away in 1910, how did he support the shah?

You better post to other sites. You will be flagged for terms of service violations eventually. You cannot talk about how the, revolution, was done in detail, what alphabet agencies and which nations were involved, or how each nation divided up the spoils, nor Kermit Roosevelt's involvement, etc. It was all declassified over 30 years ago.

I think their view have been shape by the media not the actual event that happens and the media doesn't inform people properly sometimes

Arguably it started thousands of years ago. In terms of Central Asia and the Western World at odds and conflict.

@@USSAnimeNCC- but I think their view is shaped by facts not other media.

Still doesn't justify Iran's barbaric acts of taking random embassy staff as hostage

@@khalidh442 No it does not but that was a time of great turmoil and uncertainty with no clear outcome so I think we must stop short of blaming the nation for that incident. Emotions all around ran very high yet bloodshed was avoided and in the long run that might be seen as the greatest victory of its' time. Meaning the fact that war did not break out between Iran and the west, whatever the situation since.

The whole video is basiclly a prequel/run up to the actual operation Ajax. Should have been a 2 part episode

Any other videos on the topic?

Steven Kinzer's "All The Shah's Men" is a great read on the coup.

@@JohnSmith-jj2yd Thats what brought me here. Didn't even get to the Guatemalan part.

John Smith :: This Channel has a number of issues with omitting important facts about The Cold-War and the United States' duplicitous Foreign-Policy.

accurate as fuck!

@@black10872 50 years later UK-Saddam has WMD US-You certain? UK-We got evidence right there US-Give us a few minutes UK-How did it go? US-There was no WMDs and now Iraqis hate us UK-Sorry our bad.

@@frankieseward8667 Hey, who accused iraq of WMDs?

@@thilakhariThe Us

@@Alex-ft9jy Then why did this guy put the blame on UK?

Dennis Howell The U.S. had no involvement in the 1953 Iranian coup www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/7ndccb/the_us_did_not_overthrow_iran_pm_mossadeq_the_cia/

@@derpjesus3468 Did you bother to read past the initial post in that thread?

@@derpjesus3468 lol, you should check the CIA world factbook and see if they agree. they self publish their operations jsyk. I guess you wouldn't though would you...

Allen Dulles ( brother of John Dulles ) was director of the CIA picked by Eisenhower / Nixon administration

Gabriel Oberleitner actually the same strategies from the Iran coup were used one year later in the Guatemala coup in 1954

I caught that too lol

Political family connections. And I thought the mafia was shady. Governments are the biggest shady bastards

It’s a double edged sword. The brothers contributed a lot toward the success of OSS and covert operations against the Axis during WWII. Their expertise as intelligence officers naturally led to their heavy involvement in shaping US foreign relations in the modern era-they would’ve been considered experts.

@@devtrev85 too bad Allen spent most of his time in the OSS negotiating deals for Nazis

@@devtrev85 What intelligence they are intelligence

Aren't you an Iranian ?

And to definitely not justify the creation of the Islamic republic

@@CedricThePlaystation the creation of that government is fully justified

Oh please STFP you'r not leaving in this hell to fucking understand it

@@CedricThePlaystation why

Yes, I made that point above ^^^

Dan 240Z Truman was an anti-imperialist, he refused to intervene in Iran, which the British Fox was trying to press them to do. The real America died with Truman and Eisenhower admitted to the devil’s wish

@@SI-fv7gc Truman wasn't an anti-imperialist. Mosaddeq wanted an alliance with the Americans against the Soviets and the British and Truman wisely accepted the offer.

@@EvanSiegel54 Mossadegh had no such interests, and his relationship with the Soviet Union is intensely debated. Truman is known to have refused Churchill's demands for an intervention in Iran by angrily remarking his opinions on this issue. It in 1:15 in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-It2x9iBJL7g.html&ab_channel=JourneymanPictures . It was actually the fear of the Soviets becoming close with Iran that influenced the US decision to support a Coup.

@@SI-fv7gc Well, that was certainly one factor. Ahmad Qavam had a closer relationship than Mosaddeq with the Soviets and the Tudeh.

Our greatest ally is why

I do

They should dislike the UK much more! They created the problem!

@Maria W maybe. But the fact is the UK created the problem!

@@iranforever1566 you are regime troll. Iranians don't like the UK. They don't have any problems with neither USA nor Israel. You AKHOOND lovers are all British made.

Thanks :-)

nice comparison, right down to the disastrous endings.

@@jimfeldhouse4038 it ended quite well.

At least better than a military dictatorship.

Ironic that I am watching this video while drinking a cup of Earl Grey Tea.

probably because they completely ripped it off

@@TheMrFu , I prefer the term- "taken inspiration"

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The “islamic policies” of muslim nations are an insult to islam.

Islam is corrupt

@@eca3101 yet it is highly successful because of its political aspect.

@@gostavoadolfos2023 Islam? Highly successful? Ahahah That's why Muslims countries are constantly at the top for scientific contributions, right? That's why Muslim countries went to the moon, right? That's why Muslims countries aren't in constant bloody civil wars, right? "Success" my ass

@@eca3101 maybe your using the wrong measurements and criteria we are humans after all we clearly don't belong in space and industry has been ruining our planet plus the homeless, jobless , underemployed with no health insurance , yeah you might say the wests priorities are out of wack

* shot down by Iran gov't in attempt to demonize the Christian world

Scott MrConservative Christian? Demonize? What the fuck, the Americans acknowledged they shot down the plane, the problem is that they never apologized.

@@scottlemurianboxer lol we admitted it.

You are free to think whatever you want, because clearly you think you know everything. That's like saying, the 1 murder who turns himself in, is the only guilty one. Lol...but sure if you think the No other nation in the middle East played apart.....or even IR gov't knew about it, and used it to unite people of a war torn nation. You should try talking to and know a actual ambassador.

I find it funny people with fake RU-vid account claim to know more then someone who knew the ambassador 😂😂😂

The Brits were the ones who wanted the oil and the US got involved because of the Brits (who owned alot of Iranian oil) asking for help and claiming that Iran was drifting towards the soviets. In Iraq the US also didn't get much oil since the oil industry had to he rebuilt due to Saddam neglecting upgrades and infrastructure (as well as saddam damaging them as part of his scorched earth tactics) and by the time the repairs were made most of the oil was owned by the iraqi government, drilled by iraqi and european companies, and then sold in Asia mainly to China, Japan, and South Korea with the remaining oil mostly being used in europe or within the middle east. Same goes for Iran, the oil is now owned locally and sold mostly to China. If the US was concerned about oil theres no reason for them to invade Afghanistan either since they have no oil but they do have alot of minerals... which the US ignored and is now being surveyed by chinese mining companies. The USs main way of making money off the war had to do with military suppliers and contractors getting paid by the US government to supply the war and rebuild the region, not by stealing oil.

There was never a coup that took place successfully

Daryoush :: This Channel has many issues with leaving out comphrensive facts. Leaving the viewers with a misunderstanding of events ; a deliberate misunderstanding. Your synopsis was excellent !

Jeffrey Hennig probably not considering the Great War still makes videos

Imagine having to give oil to Western countries when you could just kidnap some random journalists. *_This post was made by the Revolutionary Iran gang_*

Mossadeq was a traitor who plunged his country into chaos, anarchy and hunger and almost succeeded in selling Iran to the Soviet Union. Anyone who loves Mossadeq today must also love Ahmadinejad for his populist economic policies and insane demagoguery. At that time, it was the right to own the Iranian oil which isolated Iran. Today it is the right to posses nuclear technology, and again, Iran is being isolated from the world. Mossadeq, like Ahmadinejad, also led a populist economic policy, an anti-Iranian policy of isolation and the exclusion of foreign influences. The 19th of August, the day Dr. Mossadeq was overthrown, should remain in the memory of every Iranian, it was the day that was prevented, that Iran was sold out to the Soviet Union.

@@yourmajesty1361 glad someone finally realises that about mousaddeq. but the problem with current regime is not only about the nukes. it's just a justification. they have mainly problems with iranians spreading out their meaningless revolution. The idea of great israel and world zionism is against this revolution. both sides are maniacs and both deserve each other...

Rezâ Šâh Pahlavi Iran is isolated from the world due to its harsh oppression of minorities which have lived in Iran for hundreds of years, and its murder and torture of dissidents and pro-secular figure. It's also being isolated due to its inability to divorce religion from politics and said religion calls for the deaths of those who aren't Muslim.... I wonder why we don't want them to have nuclear weapons.... 🤔

@@Edmonton-of2ec sure it's that thing US cares about, not the oil.

Tbh, the British and Soviets didn't meet much resistance during their short invasion

Matro what ??? That doesn’t even make any sense 🤣🤣🤣

@kesofat Bruh I'm not even Hindu. The Bengali is a type of bird.

@kesofat India have 200 million muslims. U fool

Iran accepted every request the Brits asked them too, Iran even fired all the German engineers that were working on Iran in order to settle the hostility between the two countries, but the Biritsh wanted to invade Iran nevertheless.

Flying his colors ?

Salty Mosadegh fangays are out here defending their myth even tho they know Mosadegh was nothing more than a lying piece of garbage who was betrayed by the people closest to him.

@@armbaria by defending his nation against foreigners? Lol?

@@saeedvazirian he almost sold our country to the soviet union so of course most iranians heavily dislike him.

@@armbaria 👏👏👏 Afarin

Give them demon crazy? The US didnt even get much oil from iran at the time, it was more about supporting the british and pushing the soviets out of iran. Oil and freedom didnt have much to do with it for the US at least. And while the oil did belong to iran the British did have a legitimate interest in things since they owned a large portion of the iranian oil company, and virtually all the equipmentz machinery, ships, and many of the skilled employees were British.

Too right. What we did in Iran only led to people across the country rebel against the corrupt and impotent Shah. Out of all those factions that wanted reform, unfortunately the Islamists won (I say this as a Muslim), and Iran is in ruin. The Islamic Regime must clear off, but I see so many Iranians online wanting the Shah and his power back, one blindly loyal to the west like a puppet state, and not one pre coup under Mossadegh. The proper democratic, liberal Iranian state. I hope Iran can get the Ayotollah out.

Plz do you have any sources in English fir that story?

@@danieltsiprun8080 he doesn't have any source because these are all lies that Islamic regime trolls keep spreading like a virus to vilify a true Patriot like Reza Shah the Great.

"Ocular cavity" means shooting between the eyes? (the classic spot known from so many movies)

Ur 110% correct.

AWESOME WORLD the most of iranians want Shah back ,but when our Ayetollahs put out of at iran all the fucking westerns mafiosis , but not in this time , now our one enemys are westerns mafiosis not our dears Ayetollahs.

I really appreciate England to remove the Shah! I say you honestly : Death 2 Pahlavi Dynasty! they plundered the south of Iran and killed many local leaders and people in the south. even they wanted to besiege the south to kill the people from starving! but fortunately we could kill all of Iranian troops in the south. the US knows it. from 1960's the US wanted to remove the Shah but they couldn't find any solutions. we in the south hate Tehran and Pahlavi Dynasty. in WW1 and WW2 Iranian didn't help the south at all. only the people of the south helped Dr. Mossadeq. before 1979 revolution most of cities in the south didn't have drinking water or even university. the first university in our city was established in 1994! Death 2 Iran :D Yes I'm from Iran :D even Iranians didn't fight against England in 1857, 1914,1915 and 1943 wars. I and other people here hope the US and England crush Tehran very soon. after that Tehran will be a garbage. even Kurd and Arabs hate Tehran.

@@derpjesus3468 I’m aware of everything you said. I’m also happy I agree with everything you said. I’m pro-shah and love the imperial state of Iran.

@@ArmanM2 agreed

@Kaz Miller the whole "1979 revolution" was a well planned CIA coup which started in the early 1970s. Khomeini was on their payroll.

@@marmary5555 Copium inhale

What would you say wasn't accurate?

Absolutely not. He was a British spy and close to Islamic terrorists such as Fedayeen Eslam.