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Iran: 1953 Coup - Coggle Diagram
Iran: 1953 Coup
Shah
Dismisses Mossadegh and appoints Zahedi
Flees
Returns
1949 Assassination Attempt
Takes a more active role in politics
Blames Tudeh
Outlaws Tudeh
Installed in 1941 by the British and USSR during their invasion
Anti-communist
USA
Executive
Eisenhower
John Foster Dulles
CIA
Allen Dulles
Roosevelt
Bribes
Flees to CIA safe house
Returns and becomes PM
Shaban the Brainless
Street thugs
Swartzkopf
Persuades the Shah to return
Helps train SAVAK
Political Intelligentsia
National Front
Military
Zahedi
Officers
Aristocratic Elite
Mossadegh
More ceremonial role for the Shah
Oil nationalisation
Control of the military away from the Shah
Urban workers
Rural poor
Urbanising
Underclass
Tudeh
Ulama
Soviet Union