DAILY BEAST: Oblivious to History, Trump's Turning Up the Heat on Iran. He Should Look at the 1953 CIA Coup.

  • Siavush Randjbar-Daemi

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“Today’s release brings some closure to a long-standing dispute over the completeness of the FRUS volume related to Iran [between] 1951 and 1954,” Siavush Randjbar-Daemi, Professor of Iranian History at the University of Manchester, told IranWire.He said the documents published on June 16 “vindicate and confirm” the existing research that points out “the CIA’s overall management and control over the August 16-19 1953 operation.”

Period26 Jun 2017

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  • TitleOblivious to History, Trump's Turning Up the Heat on Iran. He Should Look at the 1953 CIA Coup.
    Media name/outletThe Daily Beast
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    Date26/06/17
    Description“Today’s release brings some closure to a long-standing dispute over the completeness of the FRUS volume related to Iran [between] 1951 and 1954,” Siavush Randjbar-Daemi, Professor of Iranian History at the University of Manchester, told IranWire.He said the documents published on June 16 “vindicate and confirm” the existing research that points out “the CIA’s overall management and control over the August 16-19 1953 operation.”
    URLwww.thedailybeast.com/oblivious-to-history-trumps-turning-up-the-heat-on-iran-but-there-are-lessons-in-the-1953-cia-coup
    PersonsSiavush Randjbar-Daemi

Keywords

  • Iran
  • US politics
  • Middle East history