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In the 1950s Iran was one of the world’s biggest oil producers and the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company - which later became BP - owned the concession to drill oil there. So when Iran threatened to nationalise it Britain and the US took covert action.
An account by one of MI6’s top spies in the Middle East has revealed how Britain conspired with the United States to bring down the Iranian prime minister, Mohammad Mossadeq in 1953.
After a military coup Mossadeq was put on trial and remained under house arrest until his death 14 years later.
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008171080195463-how-mi6-and-cia-recruited-army-generals-and-bribed-politicians-in-run-up-to-1953-coup-in-iran/