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 popular Prime Minister, Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh.

You will hear from over 250 figures including world leaders, diplomats, foreign policy analysts, military personnel, authors, intellectuals, journalists, politicians, CIA officials, Pulitzer prize winners, Nobel Prize laureates, Academy Award winners, and many others.

The purpose of this archive is to permanently document public statements made pertaining to the 1953 coup in Iran. These testimonies have significant historical value, revealing international attitudes and perspectives, past and present, on a key event in Iranian, British and American history.

A definitive multimedia resource with text, audio and video, www.mohammadmossadegh.com/1953 will be regularly updated and categorized for quick reference. It's a reservoir of information that certain people don't want you to see, documenting one of the most significant, relevant, and yet little-known world events of the past 100 years.

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United States Presidents

Harry Truman

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Richard Nixon

Gerald Ford

Jimmy Carter

Bill Clinton

Barack Obama

U.S. Government Officials & Diplomats

Jst. William O. Douglas

Hillary Clinton  

Dean Acheson

George McGhee

Henry A. Byroade

Fraser Wilkins

William M. Rountree

Loy Henderson

Madeline Albright

Alan Greenspan

Newt Gingrich

Nicholas Burns

Henry Kissinger

Dennis Ross

John Bolton

Bill Richardson

David Frum

Thomas R. Pickering

Ramsey Clark

Victor L. Tomseth

Peter W. Gailbraith

Joseph Limbert

Ari Fleischer

Gary Sick

Robert W. Komer

Henry Precht

James Dobbins

Daniel Ellsberg

Goli Ameri

Larry Wilkerson

Scott McClellan

Flynt Leverett

Jst. William O. Douglas

Peter W. Gailbraith

Mike Dukakis

Henry Kissinger

Newt Gingrich

Zbigniew Brzezinski

U.S. Congressmen

Ron Paul (R-TX)

Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)

Jim Moran (D-VA)

Jim McDermott (D-WA)

Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)

Bernie Sanders (D-VT)

Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD)

Jim Wright (D-TX)

David Obey (D-WI)

Keith Ellison (D-MN)

Paul Findley (R-IL)

U.S. Senators

John Kerry (D-MA)

Robert Byrd (D-WV)

Mike Gravel (D-AK)

George McGovern (D-SD)

Richard Lugar (R-IN)

Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)

Gary Hart (D-CO)

John McCain (R-AZ)

Jay Rockefeller (D-NY)

CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)

Kermit Roosevelt

Richard Cottam

Donald Wilber

Thomas Braden

John Waller

Tony Mendez

Jesse Leaf

William Casey

David Atlee Phillips

William J. Daugherty

Paul Pillar

Chalmers Johnson

Michael V. Hayden

Richard Helms

Miles Copeland

Flynt Leverett

Vernon A. Walters

Philip Giraldi

Ray McGovern

William E. Colby

Robert Baer

John H. Stutesman

United States Military

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Major General George C. Stewart

General Wesley Clark

General Robert Gard

General Michael Hayden

Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson

Colonel Ann Wright

Colonel Richard Klass

Colonel Chuck Scott

Scott Ritter

Franklin C. (Chuck) Spinney

American Hostages Held in Iran

Bruce Laingen

John W. Limbert

Barry Rosen

William J. Daugherty

Colonel Chuck Scott

American Journalists / Authors / Writers

Kennett Love

Stephen Kinzer

Walter Cronkite

Ted Koppel

James Risen

Carl Rowan

George Will

Bill Moyers

John Perkins

Christiane Amanpour

Howard Fineman

Howard Zinn

Matt Taibbi

Kenneth Pollack

Naomi Klein

Fareed Zakaria

Barbara Slavin

Frank Sesno

Robert Scheer

Elaine Sciolino

Barry Rubin

Robert Dreyfuss

Charles Krauthammer

Michael Slackman

Amy Kellogg

Malcolm Byrne

Fred Halliday

Hugh Downs

Roxana Saberi

Reese Erlich

Daniel Yergin

Charlie Rose

Roland S. Martin

Bruce Morton

Dan de Luce

Mark Bowden

Marvin Zonis

Russell Baker

Clifton Daniel

Davar Ardalan

Deepa Fernandes

Azadeh Moaveni

Mike Malloy

Tim Weiner

David Wise

David Farber

Chalmers Johnson

Geraldine Brooks

Johann Hari

Tara Bahrampour

Steve Hayes

Paul Valleley

Anthony Shadid

Laura Secor

Russell Mokhiber

American Professors

Noam Chomsky

Mark J. Gasiorowski

Fred Halliday

Stephen Zunes

Ward Churchill

Juan Cole

Nikkie Keddie

James A. Bill

Richard Nelson Frye

Chalmers Johnson

Kahled Fahmy

David Farber

Jo-Anne Hart

Marvin Zonis

Frank Sesno

Fouad Ajami

Alon Ben-Meir

Richard Shenkman

Foreign Policy Analysts

Joseph Cirincione

George Perkovich

Paul Salem

Walter Russell Mead

Barry Rubin

Sheldon L. Richman

Ted Galen Carpenter

Gareth Porter

Artists / Writers / Performers

Allen Ginsberg

Jon Stewart

John le Carré

Gore Vidal

Yasmin Ahmad

Coleman Barks

Henry Rollins

Ted Rall

John Fischetti

Herbert Block (Herblock)

Russell Baker

Jello Biafra

The Clash

Hollywood

Ben Affleck

Robert De Niro

Matt Damon

John Hurt

Sean Penn

Viggo Mortensen

Stephen Gaghan

Oliver Stone

Amanda Peet

Ben Kingsley

Harry Shearer

Miscellaneous

Ralph Nader

Keith Olbermann

Lyndon Larouche

Howard Zinn

Ayn Rand

Louis Farrakhan

Jody Williams

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Michael Moore

Cindy Sheehan

David Icke

Charles Barron

Lord Conrad Black

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British Government

Winston Churchill

Jack Straw

David Miliband

Tony Blair

Ken Livingstone

Jeremy Corbyn

Tony Benn

Phyllis Starkey

George Galloway

Sir Sam Falle

Sir Donald Logan

Sir Peter Ramsbotham

Sir George Middleton

Sir Eldon Griffiths

Lord David Owen

Lord Tarsem King

Lord Douglas Hurd

Lord David Chidgey

Lord Norman Lamont

Baroness Shirley Wiliams

British Journalists

Christopher Hitchens

Christopher de Bellaigue

David Frost

Robert Fisk

Mark Curtis

John Pilger

Stephen Dorril

Tom Mangold

Tim Llewellyn

Alan Cowell

Jon Snow

Rageh Omaar

British Entertainers

Rory Bremner

Robert Newman

Danny Wallace

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Iranian Government

Hossein Fatemi

Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Abolhassan Banisadr

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Mohammad Khatami

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Manucher Farmanfarmaian

Asghar Parsa

Javad Zarif

Ebrahim Yazdi

Kazem Jalali

Nosratollah Khazeni

Rasoul Movahedian

Mehdi Karroubi

Ataollah Mohajerani

Abbas Amir Entezam

Ali Larijani

Sadeq Kharrazi

Saeed Jalili

Seyed Abbas Araghchi

Gholam Ali-Haddad Adel

Hossein Fardust

Mostafa Zahrani

Mansour Farhang

Ali Akbar Javanfekr

Iranian Figures

Iraj Pezeshkzad [IRAN/FRANCE]

Shirin Ebadi [IRAN]

Akbar Ganji [IRAN]

Nosratollah Amini [IRAN/USA]

Marjane Satrapi [IRAN/FRANCE]

Soraya Esfandiary [IRAN]

Omid Kordestani [USA/IRAN]

Col. Jalil Bozorgmehr

Reza Arham Sadr [IRAN]

Shirin Neshat [USA/IRAN]

Firoozeh Dumas [USA/IRAN]

Gholam-Hossein Mossadegh [IRAN]

Maryam Rajavi [FRANCE/IRAN]

Massoud Rajavi [FRANCE/IRAN]

Reza Pahlavi [USA/IRAN]

Ashraf Pahlavi [IRAN]

Maziar Bahari [UK/CANADA/IRAN]

Iranian Authors/Scholars/Analysts

Homa Katouzian [BRITAIN/IRAN]

Farhad Diba [IRAN/SPAIN]

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]

Dr. Hossein Askari [USA]

Azadeh Moaveni [USA/IRAN]

Abbas Milani [USA/IRAN]

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International

Benazir Bhutto [PAKISTAN]

Hans Blix [SWEDEN]

Fidel Castro [CUBA]

Mohamed ElBaradei [EGYPT]

Hugo Chavez [VENEZUELA]

Jaswant Singh [INDIA]

Carl Bildt [SWEDEN]

Ahdaf Soueif [EGYPT/BRITAIN]

Arthur Kent [CANADA]

Yasmin Ahmad [MALAYSIA]

Zygmunt Bauman [POLAND]

Maria A. Ressa [PHILIPPINES]

Ryszard Kapuscinski [POLAND]

Azmi Bishara [ISRAEL/PALESTINE]

Tarek Fatah [CANADA/PAKISTAN]

Barrister Harun-ur Rashid [BANGLADESH]

Jamil M. Baroody [SAUDI ARABIA]

Mohamed Hassanein Heikal [EGYPT]

Ralph Ramkarran [GUYANA]

Efraim Halevy [ISRAEL]

Religious Leaders

Rabbi Michael Lerner

Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb

Rabbi Brant Rosen

Rabbi Arthur Waskow

Reverend Alan Jones

Sister Ellen Francis

Nobel Peace Prize Winners

Jody Williams [1997]

Shirin Ebadi [2003]

Mohamed ElBaradei [2005]