great, suggested reading re: Iran..... "All the Shah's Men", by Kinzer:

"All the Shah's Men
An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror"
by Stephen Kinzer

John Wiley & Sons,Inc.


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Half a century ago, the United States overthrew a Middle Eastern government for the first time. The victim was Mohammad Mossadegh, the democratically elected prime minister of Iran. Although the coup seemed a success at first, today it serves as a chilling lesson about the dangers of foreign intervention.

In this book, New York Times correspondent Stephen Kinzer gives the first full account of this fateful operation. His account is centered around an hour-by-hour reconstruction of the events of August 1953, and concludes with an assessment of the coup's "haunting and terrible legacy."

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Great read about how Eisenhower and the ever busy Dulles brothers "remade" the Middle East. Recommend it, highly.

pinto