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"Introduction "History is about arguments."-Christopher Hill The new edition of the declassified documents throws invaluable light on how deeply the US was involved in the internal politics of Iran from the very beginning of the oil crisis-an involvement previously overlooked by both...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Introduction "History is about arguments."-Christopher Hill The new edition of the declassified documents throws invaluable light on how deeply the US was involved in the internal politics of Iran from the very beginning of the oil crisis-an involvement previously overlooked by both historians and informed observers. A cursory comparison between the 2017 version of Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952-54, Vol. X, Iran, 1951-54 with the 1989 version with the same title indicates that these documents were withheld so long precisely because the State Department was reluctance to admit to such deep involvement. The 2017 version reveals that the 1989 version had "redacted"-euphemism for deleted and censored-the following two short, but significant, phrases from a long 1951 National Security Council document: US "conduct special political operations" in Iran; and US "coordinated US-UK support for pro-Western Iranian elements"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 195 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-191) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781108837491 1108837492 |
| Index Number: | HD9576 |
| CLC: | F437.362 |
| Call Number: | F437.362/A159 |
| Contents: | US involvement -- US concerns: oil or communism? -- Parliamentary politics -- The road to the coup -- Memory revised. |