Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pro-monarchy rioters take to the streets of Tehran in August 1953. - Intercontinentale/AFP/Getty Images Since Israel began its ...

Explore how the United States has used secret regime-change operations from Iran’s 1953 coup to Venezuela’s 2026 intervention ...

Iran’s democracy collapsed not on a battlefield but behind closed doors. From the rise of Mohammad Mossadegh and the nationalization of oil to the 1953 coup, this episode traces how foreign interests, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People observe fire and smoke from an Israeli airstrike on an oil depot in Tehran, Iran, on June 15, 2025. Stringer/Getty Images ...

We didn’t remove Iran’s Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953 or Chile’s Salvador Allende in 1973.

The United States launched coordinated airstrikes against Iran's nuclear facilities on Sunday. The targets included the underground uranium enrichment site at Fordow, the centrifuge production centre ...

For decades following the dramatic overthrow in August 1953 of Mohammad Mossadegh, Iran’s revered prime minister, Americans and Britons were led to believe that his toppling was the result not of CIA ...

Oil fields: In 1953, the US helped stage a coup to overthrow Iran’s democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh. He had pledged to nationalize the country’s oil fields – a move the US and ...

Since Israel began its concerted attack on Iran, calls for regime change have grown louder, with US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raising the possibility of ...