1953, Operation Ajax. Obama just apologized for this earlier this year. Some wonder why we have so much trouble with mid-eastern countries like Iran. There are no clean hands in any of this but we must take a realistic look at our foreign policy, especially of late, about why we are having problems. Our current policy, is basically "I don't like the way my neighbor arranges his furniture so when he leaves for work Ill just sneak in and rearrange it while he is at work." Well at some point the neighbor is going to get angry and retaliate!
The coup d'état against Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh of Iran occurred on August 19, 1953 and was commonly called Operation Ajax.
1953...poor Mossadeq (Soon to be poor Ahmadinejad)
In 1973, the CIA helped rebels in Chile overthrow President Salvador Allende in order to prevent a Soviet-backed communist government from controlling the country.
None; perhaps you are referring to the OSS.
The reason why the Bay of Pigs Invasion happened was because of the CIA's desire to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. The CIA trained Cuban refugees for this purpose.
The overthrow of the Shah (Reza Pahlavi) in the late 1970s, and the takeover of the Iranian government by Ayatollah Khomenei, culminating in the Iran hostage crisis, led to this event.
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful attempt by a CIA trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba with support from US government armed forces to overthrow the Cuban government.
In the CIA-supported Bay of Pigs operation of 1961, Cuban exiles unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow the Communist government of Cuba, which was led by Fidel Castro at the time.
The CIA
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful attempt by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba with support from US government armed forces, to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company was the oil company that had a virtual monopoly on Iranian oil fields until the industry was nationalized in the early 1950s. After the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq by the CIA and the SAS (Britain) in 1953 in direct response to the nationalization, the amount of oil companies operating in Iran increased. The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company still exists today as BP.
Castro
The Iranian government changed the first year of the Iranian solar calendar from the Islamic hijri to the ascension to the throne by Cyrus the Great.
Half of Iran's government and the private sector is half of the Iranian economy. The Iranian government that Iran is trying to privatize it.