By installing the Shah in power as imperialism's puppet leader, the United Kingdom and the United States split Iran's oil fifty-fifty and established an anti-communist dictatorship led by the Shah.
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Translated from Spanish
On August 19, 1953, the U.S./CIA and United Kingdom coup against Iran, led by Winston Churchill, known as "Operation Ajax," was consummated against the progressive government of Mohammad Mosaddegh, simply because he nationalized its oil.
In 1951, Mosaddegh won the elections in Iran and proposed to parliament the nationalization of the oil industry and therefore the expulsion of the British imperialist leeches from the country, which was approved by all parliamentarians with massive support.
Automatically, for British imperialism, Mosaddegh became a dangerous communist and a dictator who needed to be reined in; they had to bring "democracy" to Iran... that is, resume plundering its oil.
The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (today BP) and Churchill's imperialism flew into a rage against Mosaddegh for daring to nationalize their own resources and rejected all diplomacy from the outset; the first thing the United Kingdom did was withdraw British technicians from the oil company and boycott the new National Iranian Oil Company, even mobilizing the military and sending British warships to blockade the Abadan oil refinery.
Churchill's government imposed economic sanctions on Iran, prohibiting the export of sugar and steel, prevented Iran from accessing its reserves in British bank accounts—that is, they stole the international reserves deposited in the United Kingdom.
By the end of 1952, Mosaddegh nationalized the telephone service and Iran's fishing industry, thereby reinforcing his anti-imperialist stance and drawing closer to the Soviet Union—something that was the last straw for the Western imperialist criminals.
In early 1953, the President of the United States, Dwight Eisenhower, and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill, agreed to launch a joint coup known as "Operation Ajax."
British and CIA spies in Iran then worked tirelessly to overthrow Mosaddegh through massive bribes to the population.
The MI6 officer Norman Derbyshire admitted that the United Kingdom spent more than 2 million pounds on bribes for fake "outraged" protesters, many peasants brought in from the countryside in exchange for a nice check, and they hired professional agitators to mobilize people and show the international community that the people falsely hated Mosaddegh.
This led to August 13, 1953, when the coup was officially declared; the chosen puppet of imperialism was the Shah, who signed a royal decree dismissing Mohammad Mosaddegh and appointing Colonel Fazlollah Zahedi as prime minister—the man who was his brother-in-law... something that did not sit well at all with the Iranian people.
The Shah appointing his brother-in-law as prime minister was obviously taken by the people as the establishment of a dictatorship, so they came out en masse to support Mosaddegh and protest against the Shah, the United Kingdom, and the United States, thereby halting the coup.
The military officer who read and distributed the Shah's decree dismissing Mosaddegh among the troops, Nematollah Nasiri, would also be arrested (Nasiri later became the main chief of the hated and feared Shah's secret police, SAVAK).
The coup had failed, and the empire's puppet coup leader, the Shah, fled the Persian country in a hurry and went into exile in Rome. But the CIA and MI6 would try again a few days later to overthrow Mosaddegh, this time using Iran's mafia, with the date set for the definitive coup on August 19, 1953.
According to declassified CIA documents and records, some of the most feared mobsters in Iran—thugs, pimps, and drug traffickers—were hired by the CIA to organize the riots of August 19.
All kinds of mercenaries paid by the CIA were brought to Tehran in buses and trucks, and together with the bribed "protesters," they took over the city's streets, set fire to Mosaddegh's house, and pursued all his sympathizers, leaving between 200 and 300 dead that day. Mosaddegh miraculously escaped from his house and was ultimately forced to resign from his post under threats from CIA-paid military personnel against him.
By installing the Shah in power as imperialism's puppet leader, the United Kingdom and the United States split Iran's oil fifty-fifty and established an anti-communist dictatorship led by the Shah.
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