The telegram he ignored that turned a failed coup into a rout
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The telegram he ignored that turned a failed coup into a rout
In this episode, we follow the moments after a botched August 15, 1953 coup in Tehran and the decision that kept one CIA agent in the city. The episode traces how newspapers, mosques, money and a forged narrative pushed by foreign operatives reshaped public fear and political momentum - but what did that choice actually unleash?
Person: Mohammad Mosaddegh
Person: Kermit Roosevelt Jr.
Event: Failed coup on August 15, 1953
Action: CIA order to withdraw ignored by Roosevelt
Topic: Nationalization of oil and subsequent propaganda campaign
- Parliament voted unanimously to nationalize Iran’s oil concession in 1951 after decades under the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.
- Britain responded with a global embargo, pulled technicians from Abadan, and framed Mosaddegh as a communist risk to the US.
- Roosevelt arrived in Tehran with funds, local contacts, and orders to remove Mosaddegh and restore the Shah.
- The first coup collapsed within eight hours when Mosaddegh read a dismissal decree, called his commanders, and had the officers arrested.
- After a CIA director’s telegram ordered withdrawal, Roosevelt stayed, used money and media to spread a false story that Mosaddegh planned to abolish the monarchy and invite communism.
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