CIA admits it was behind coup in Iran

The CIA has admitted that it was behind the coup that overthrew Mohammed Mossadegh and installed Shah Reza Pahlavi as Iran's ruler 60 years ago today.

"[T]he military coup that overthrew
Mosadeq and his National Front cabinet was carried out under CIA direction as
an act of U.S. foreign policy," the history reads. The risk of leaving Iran
"open to Soviet aggression," it adds, "compelled the