The Anglo-American relationship through the lenses of the Anglo-Iranian oil crisis : 1950-53

• Main Author: Ong, Zavier Xin Yu
• Other Authors: Park Hyung Wook
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/66277
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In August 1953, Britain and the United States orchestrated a coup d’état, codenamed Operation TP-AJAX, which overthrew Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq and secured the throne of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. More than 60 years have passed but the Iranian political psyche remains deeply...