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Film: Iranian Odyssey – Mossadegh, Oil and the 1953 Coup, An (2010)

Film: Iranian Odyssey – Mossadegh, Oil and the 1953 Coup, An (2010)

March 8, 2015 | By

Maziar Bahari’s documentary examines the pivotal period between 1951-1953 in which Iranian cabinet minister Mohammad Mossadegh was elected Prime Minister and proceeded to nationalize the country’s oil industry after 40 years of control by the British Ango-Persian Oil Company (later to become BP), and whose progressive goals were ultimately thwarted by coup led by the CIA at the behest of Britain’s MI6…

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