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"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 reluctant to admit to such deep involvement. The 2017 version reveals that the…mehr

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"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 reluctant 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"--
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Autorenporträt
Ervand Abrahamian is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Baruch College and Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of several books including Iran Between Two Revolutions (1982) and A History of Modern Iran (2018). He was elected in 2010 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.