Fact check
Is it true: The 1953 CIA Coup Against Mossadegh (Operation Ajax)?
Yes — this is confirmed.
The CIA acknowledged in its own 2013 declassified internal history that the 1953 overthrow of Iranian PM Mossadegh was "carried out under CIA direction as an act of US foreign policy, conceived and approved at the highest levels of government." The operation (Ajax/Boot) involved propaganda, street agitation, military contacts, and coordination with the Shah. Iranian internal political dynamics also played a role; the coup was not a purely American operation, but US direction is confirmed at the highest documentary level.
The claim
In August 1953, the CIA (Operation Ajax) and British MI6 (Operation Boot) orchestrated the overthrow of Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and restored Shah Mohammad Reza
Key evidence
CIA's own 2013 declassified history confirms "CIA direction"
Iranian internal politics played independent role in Mossadegh's fall
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