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| projectThe 1953 Coup: A Testimony in Blood and Oil
"Laws, parliaments and governments are created to serve the people and not the people to serve them... In a democracy and constitutional system the will of the people is the law." - Mohammad MossadeghWritten, Compiled and Edited by Arash Norouzi
After
years
in the making, The Mossadegh Project presents the most
ambitious testimonial record ever assembled of the 1953 coup d'etat against
the legitimate, peaceful, democratic government of Iran's beloved Prime
Minister, Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh. You will
hear from over 220 figures including world
leaders, diplomats, foreign policy analysts, military
personnel, noted authors, intellectuals, CIA
officials, Pulitzer prize winners, Nobel Prize laureates,
Academy Award winners, and many others.
This will be a permanent documentation of the public statements made pertaining to that fateful event, and also serve to correct various inaccuracies within their assertions. Also included are accounts from the atrocity's British, American and Iranian co-conspirators, as well as modern day apologists and coup-deniers, whose arguments will be swiftly annihilated with good old-fashioned facts and logic.
A definitive resource with text, audio and video archives, www.mohammadmossadegh.com/1953 will be regularly updated and categorized for quick reference. It's a reservoir of information and testimonies that Western imperialists, neocon hypocrites and monarch-worshipping Persian traitors don't want you to see, documenting one of the most significant, relevant, and yet little-known world events of the past 100 years.
United States Presidents ![]()
- Harry Truman
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Richard Nixon
- Gerald Ford
- Jimmy Carter
- Bill Clinton
U.S. Government Officials & Diplomats
- Dean Acheson
- George McGhee
- Fraser Wilkins
- Henry Byroade
- William M. Rountree
- Loy Henderson
- Madeline Albright
- Alan Greenspan
- Nicholas Burns
- John Bolton
- Bill Richardson
- David Frum
- Thomas R. Pickering
- Ramsey Clark
- Joseph Limbert
- Ari Fleischer
- Gary Sick
- Robert W. Komer
- Henry Precht
- James Dobbins
- Goli Ameri
- Larry Wilkerson
- Scott McCellan
- Henry Kissinger
- Newt Gingrich
U.S. Congressmen
- Ron Paul (R-TX)
- Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)
- Jim Moran (D-VA)
- Jim McDermott (D-WA)
- Robert Byrd (D-WV)
- Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
- Bernie Sanders (D-VT)
- Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD)
- Jim Wright (D-TX)
- David Obey (D-WI)
U.S. Senators
- Mike Gravel (D-AK)
- Richard Lugar (R-IN)
- Gary Hart (D-CO)
- Jay Rockefeller (D-NY)
- CIA (Central Intelligence
Agency)
- Kermit Roosevelt
- Richard Cottam
- Donald Wilber
- John Waller
- Jesse Leaf
- William Casey
- William J. Daugherty
- Paul Pillar
- Chalmers Johnson
- Michael V. Hayden
- Richard Helms
- Vernon A. Walters
- Ray McGovern
United States Military
- General Wesley Clark
- General Robert Gard
- General Michael Hayden
- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
- Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatowski
- Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson
- Colonel Ann Wright
- Scott Ritter
- Bruce Laingen
- John W. Limbert
- Barry Rosen
- William J. Daugherty
American Hostages Held in Iran
- Kennett Love
- Stephen Kinzer
- Walter Cronkite
- Ted Koppel
- James Risen
- Carl Rowan
- George Will
- Bill Moyers
- John Perkins
- Christiane Amanpour
- Howard Fineman
- Kenneth Pollack
- Naomi Klein
- Fareed Zakaria
- Barbara Slavin
- Robert Scheer
- Barry Rubin
- Robert Dreyfuss
- Michael Slackman
- Amy Kellogg
- Malcolm Byrne
- Reese Erlich
- Daniel Yergin
- Roland S. Martin
- Bruce Morton
- Dan de Luce
- Mark Bowden
- Russell Baker
- Clifton Daniel
- Mike Malloy
- Tim Weiner
- Russell Mokhiber
American Professors
- Noam Chomsky
- Mark J. Gasiorowski
- Stephen Zunes
- Ward Churchill
- Juan Cole
- Nikkie Keddie
- James A. Bill
- Richard Nelson Frye
- Frank Sesno
- Fouad Ajami
- Alon
Ben-Meir
Foreign Policy Analysts
- Joseph Cirincione
- George Perkovich
- Walter Russell Mead
- Barry Rubin
- Ted Galen Carpenter
- Gareth Porter
Artists / Writers / Performers
- Allen Ginsberg
- Jello Biafra
- John le Carré
- Gore Vidal
- Coleman Barks
- Ted Rall
- John Fischetti
- Herbert Block (Herblock)
- The Clash
Hollywood
- Robert De Niro
- Matt Damon
- John Hurt
- Sean Penn
- Stephen Gaghan
- Oliver Stone
- Amanda Peet
Miscellaneous
- Ralph Nader
- Lyndon Larouche
- Howard Zinn
- Ayn Rand
- Louis Farrakhan
- Jody Williams
- Michael Moore
- Cindy Sheehan
British Government ![]()
- Winston Churchill
- Jack Straw
- Tony Blair
- Ken Livingstone
- Jeremy Corbyn
- Tony Benn
- Phyllis Starkey
- George Galloway
- Sir Sam Falle
- Sir Donald Logan
- Sir Peter Ramsbotham
- Sir George Middleton
- Lord Douglas Hurd
- Lord David Chidgey
- Lord Norman Lamont
- Baroness Shirley Wiliams
British Journalists
- Christopher Hitchens
- Robert Fisk
- Mark Curtis
- Stephen Dorril
- Jon Snow
- Rageh
Omaar
British Entertainers
- Rory Bremner
- Robert Newman
Iranian Government ![]()
- Hossein Fatemi
- Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- Abol Banisadr
- Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei
- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
- Mohammad Khatami
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- Manucher Farmanfarmaian
- Javad Zarif
- Ebrahim Yazdi
- Kazem Jalali
- Rasoul Movahedian
- Mehdi Karroubi
- Ataollah Mohajerani
- Saeed Jalili
- Seyed Abbas Araghchi
- Gholam
Ali-Haddad Adel
Iranian Figures
- Shirin Ebadi [IRAN]
- Akbar Ganji [IRAN]
- Nosratollah Amini [IRAN/USA]
- Marjane Satrapi [IRAN/FRANCE]
- Maryam Rajavi [IRAN]
- Reza Pahlavi [IRAN/USA]
- Ashraf Palavi [IRAN]
- Soraya Esfandiary [IRAN]
- Omid Kordestani [USA/IRAN]
- Gholam-Hossein Mossadegh [IRAN]
Iranian Authors/Scholars/Analysts
- Homa Katouzian [BRITAIN/IRAN]
- Farhad Diba [IRAN/SPAIN]
- Abbas Milani [USA/IRAN]
- Ervand Abrahamian [USA/BRITAIN/IRAN]
- Ray Takeyh [USA]
- Vali Nasr [USA]
- Afshin Molavi [USA]
- Trita Parsi [USA/SWEDEN]
- Abbas Amanat [USA]
- Hooshang Amirahmadi [USA]
- Karim Sadjapour [USA]
International
- Hans Blix [SWEDEN]
- Ahdaf Soueif [EGYPT/BRITAIN]
- Arthur Kent [CANADA]
- Yasmin Ahmad [MALAYSIA]
- Zygmunt Bauman [POLAND]
- Ryszard Kapuscinski [POLAND]
Arab GovernmentsReligious Leaders
- Rabbi Michael Lerner
- Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb
- Rabbi Arthur Waskow
- Sister Ellen Francis
Coup-Deniers
- Farah Pahlavi
- Ardeshir Zahedi
- Amir Taheri
Hall of Shame- Dinesh D'Souza
- Ann Coulter
- David Frum
- Ashraf Palavi
- Reza Pahlavi
- John Bolton
- Tony Blair
- George Will
- Ayn Rand
- Sir Donald Logan
- Sir Sam Falle
- Richard Shenkman
- Michael Ledeen
related links:
Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh Biography