The Mossadegh Era: Roots of the Iranian Revolution
Sepehr Zabih
The overthrow of nationalist prime minister Dr. Mohammed
Mossadegh, who on his rise to power in 1951 tried to eliminate
foreign domination of the Iranian economy, reassert national
independence and improve the lot of the Iranian people. The
coup d'etat against the Mossadegh regime in 1953 was engineered
by the CIA and the British SAS, and installed the regime of
the Shah, which ended in the revolutionary upheaval culminating
in the Islamic Republic.
"The reader of this engaging book will soon discover that
Sepehr Zabih is perhaps the outstanding student of Iranian
revolutionary and nationalist politics. Certainly his study
of Iran's Communist party, by now a well-established classic,
vouches for Zabih's stature in the field.
"His new book focuses on the struggle between the patrimonial
monarch, the Shah, and the charismatic, republican and nationalist
revolutionary leader Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh.
"Dr. Sabih's analysis of the struggle is masterful,
detailed and fascinating. His portrait of the coup and
the downfall of Mossadegh incisive and dramatic. His research
has yielded the true story of the Mossadegh phenomenon, which
ended in the weakening of the nationalistic forces."
—From the foreword by Prof. Amos Perlmutter
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