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1st Published August 20th, 2013 – 16:42 GMT via SyndiGate.info
IRAN, Tehran : A general view of Iran’s parliament during a session to discuss the President’s proposed cabinet in Tehran on August 13, 2013. AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran on Tuesday called on the US Intelligence Agency (CIA) to release all its documents on the role it played in the 1953 Iran coup against the democratically-elected Iranian Prime Minister, Mohammad Mosaddeq.
He said that the recently released documents have not provided Iran with any new pieces of information and didn’t decrease the Americans’ guilt with regard to the crimes they have committed against the Iranian nation.
The spokesman expressed the hope that Washington would review its policies against Iran and refrain from interfering in the country’s internal affairs.
Mosaddeq, convicted of treason, served three years in prison and died under house arrest in 1967.
The Iranian premier played a key role in the country’s 1951 movement that resulted in the nationalization of Iran’s oil industry, which had been mainly controlled by the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), now known as BP.
When worldwide sanctions against Iran’s oil industry failed to force Mosaddeq to abandon the move, a plan was devised by Britain (codenamed ‘Operation Boot’) and the US (codenamed TPAJAX Project) to overthrow his government.
The coup saw the formation of an absolute US-backed monarchy under Iran’s last Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was overthrown by the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
