Here are some key dates: 1953 - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency helps orchestrate the overthrow of Iran's popular Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, restoring to power Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.

This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago ...

One drops in a ballot for Mohammed ... Minister in the Mossadegh regime. Fatemi had been variously reported as torn to pieces by the Teheran mobs last August, or in hiding in Cairo, Berlin, the ...

As the democratically elected leader of Iran from 1951 to 1953, Mosaddegh championed nationalisation of ... The parliament only existed to rubber-stamp his decisions, as did the prime minister – who ...

and British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) to overthrow the then-democratically-elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953.

(Reuters) -Relations between Iran and the United States - once strong allies - have often been mistrustful and sometimes ...