Articles, Editorials, Wire Reports, Newsreels
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The Mossadegh Project
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Compiled, transcribed and introduced by Arash Norouzi
Newsreels and Video Archive
TIME Magazine Article Archive
The Associated Press (AP)
AP Columns
April 28, 1951 — Mossadegh Urged As New Premier By Iranian House
April 30, 1951 — Mossadegh Takes Over as New Iranian Premier
October 22, 1951 — Mossadegh Cites Quest of Liberty
October 22, 1951 — Profits Not Motive, Says Mossadegh
November 14, 1951 — Iran Premier Tells Why Talks Failed
January 3, 1952 — Polish Government Bids For Iranian Oil
April 25, 1952 — U.S. Is Reported Ready to Resume Arms Aid to Iran
May 18, 1952 — Big Iran Paper Hits Mossadegh
August 14, 1952 — Iran's Landlords Ordered To Share With Peasants
March 3, 1953 — Breakdown of Iran Oil Talks Stirred Riots Against Mossy
June 19, 1953 — Mossadegh Backers Bar Iranian Reds
August 19, 1953 — Schwarzkopf Denies Part In Iranian Revolt
October 4, 1953 — Mossadegh Charged With Attempt To End Monarchy
November 11, 1953 — Mossadegh Denies Authority of Court
November 15, 1953 — Court Martial Rules Itself Legal To Try Mossadegh
September 9, 1954 — Oil Pact Insults Iran, Mossadegh Says in Jail
March 6, 1967 — Mossadegh Gets Quiet Iran Burial
November 15, 1951 — Iran Faces Financial Crisis As Oil Industry Shuts Down
August 24, 1953 — Interpreting the News (J.M. Roberts, Jr.)
September 18, 1954 — STAMPS In the News
United Press International (UPI)
March 19, 1952 — Refusal of Loan Blamed on Truman
August 14, 1952 — 'Nazis' Raid Red Offices in Tehran
April 10, 1953 — Shah's Supporters Clash With Mossadegh Group
August 18, 1953 — Reds Shout Demands For Soviet Rule
August 19, 1953 — Fatemi's Brother Suffers Attack
August 19, 1953 — U.S. Hopes Fall of Mossadegh Will Mean Stable Rule
November 11, 1953 — General Strike Urged By Mossy Adherents
October 29, 1957 — 70 Mossadegh Backers Seized
UPI Columns
August 21, 1953 — Week's Balance Sheet Between Good & Bad News...
August 25, 1953 — New Regime In Iran Beats Red To Draw...
August 5, 1954 — Days of Glory Appear at End For Mossadegh
July 31, 1956 — Trying Mossadegh's Tactics
The Cleveland Plains Dealer
February 12, 1956 — Some Lights Come On Again
The Los Angeles Times
July 30, 1980 — Iran: How the Mess Came About (Kermit Roosevelt)
December 5, 2007 — Prayer rugs, Persian cats and the L.A. Times
The New York Times
March 22, 1953 — Mossadegh: No Again
August 15, 1953 — Mossadegh Plays With Fire
February 24, 2006 — Will Fight For Oil
Letters to the Editor
November 25, 1979 — Selective Outrage
The Palm Beach Post
August 19, 1953 — Weakling 'Strong Man'
The Washington Post
August 18, 2010 — Clerics responsible for Iran's failed attempts at democracy
July 21, 2012 — Book review: Patriot of Persia
The Washington Star
January 14, 1953 — Mossadegh On the Spot
The Wall Street Journal
August 21, 1953 — Lessons From Iran
The International Herald-Tribune
Iran headlines 1951-1954
Tell the British government that if Dr. Mossadegh deviates one iota from oil nationalization, the Iranian people will dispatch him to the next world.
— Mullah Kashani, of fanatical Fedayan Islam to Britain's Sir Richard Stokes. (September 1951)
The Amsterdam Evening Recorder and Daily Democrat (Amsterdam, NY)
August 5, 1953 — Dictatorship For Iran?
August 18, 1953 — End Against the Middle
August 11, 1954 — Agreement in Iran
The Binghamton Press (Binghamton, NY)
October 18, 1952 — Iran's Break With Britain
Letters to the Editor
March 17, 1953 — Weeping Champ
September 12, 1951 — Iran Premier's Stubbornness Brings Crisis
October 18, 1952 — Mossadegh's Break With Britain Can Lead Only To Disaster
January 7, 1953 — A Difficult Man
March 2, 1953 — Mossadegh's Reckless Game Rules Him Out
April 8, 1953 — New Complications in Iran
August 21, 1953 — The Fate of Mossadegh
December 10, 1953 — Hopeful Developments in Trouble Spots
December 24, 1953 — Light Punishment
The Evening News of the Tonawandas (Niagara County, NY)
November 26, 1951 — Mossadegh a Hero?
"Premier Mossadegh fired 15 generals. He evidently doesn't remember all the grief that came to President Truman for discharging only one." — Thursday October 23, 1952
The Herald Statesman (Yonkers, NY)
October 20, 1951 — Premier Mossadegh's Faulty Logic
March 27, 1953 — Time Favors Mossadegh on Oil
“Some folks spell it Mossadegh and others Mossadeq. But either way, it spells trouble for England." — Monday October 8, 1951
The Kingston Daily Freeman (Kingston, NY)
November 12, 1952 — Editorial
The Knickerbocker News (Albany, NY)
October 3, 1951 — Case of Common Enemy
October 10, 1951 — A Good Show Expected
October 17, 1951 — A Bad Break Is Feared
August 9, 1952 — Terror in Iran
The Leader-Republican (Gloversville, NY)
August 21, 1953 — What Does It Mean?
The Lockport Union-Sun & Journal (Lockport, NY)
April 14, 1953 — Iranian Oil Important
August 24, 1953 — Overturn in Iran May Be Good For U.S.
July 28, 1954 — Iran To Russia: “Hands Off!”
The Morning Herald (Gloversville, NY)
February 2, 1952 — Can't Afford It
August 19, 1952 — Power-Hungry Mossadegh
March 5, 1953 — Trouble in Iran
The Niagara Falls Gazette (Niagara Falls, NY)
September 19, 1951 — Deadlock in Iran
April 24, 1954 — Iran's Nose
Oswego Palladium-Times (Oswego, NY)
October 17, 1952 — What Next in Iran?
August 13, 1953 — Prohibition in Iran
If the UN and the hearing is on television will Premier Mossadegh be billed as "The Oil Man on the Flying Trapeze"? . . .
— The Once Over by H.I. Phillips - October 11, 1951
The Shenectady Gazette (Shenectady, NY)
January 5, 1952 — Man of the Year
August 11, 1954 — Fingers Crossed
The Skaneateles Press (Skaneateles, NY)
August 8, 1952 — Exit King Farouk
The Times Record (Troy, NY)
November 19, 1951 — We Asked For It.
August 26, 1952 — Iran and Oil
August 17, 1953 — Mossadegh Alone At Last
August 24, 1953 — The Return of the Shah
November 9, 1953 — Mossadegh Must Be Tried
August 11, 1954 — Fingers Crossed
The Utica Observer-Dispatch (Utica, NY)
August 24, 1953 — Price of 'Gas' Involved
"Because he's an intellectual, it doesn't follow that Mossadegh can operate a refinery. As Jimmy Durante remarked when he couldn't open the door, "Dat must be my Phi Beta Kappa key."
— Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA) — December 1951
(referring to comedy skit involving Durante geting locked out of his car)
Columns
June 21, 1951 — British To Stay In Iran, Produce Nationalized Oil, Wash. Hopes
July 19, 1951 — Iran Refuses To Produce Oil At Home—Will Spread More Here!
August 9, 1951 — “Broken Weekend” May Break British-Iranian Deadlock
August 27, 1951 — Scared to Death (Inside Washington)
October 18, 1951 — Mohammed Will Go To The Mountain
November 15, 1951 — Iran Faces Financial Crisis As Oil Industry Shuts Down
November 19, 1951 — Message to Mossadegh: Blackmail Does Not Pay
December 20, 1951 — British Policies Irk Truman
October 22, 1952 — Iran Shah May Be Ousted
August 21, 1953 — Week's Balance Sheet Between Good and Bad News...
August 24, 1953 — Interpreting the News (J.M. Roberts, Jr.)
August 25, 1953 — New Regime In Iran Beats Reds To Draw...
August 28, 1953 — Fluid Iranian Situation Might Still Be Dangerous
October 7, 1953 — Cloak-and-Dagger Tale Told In Recent Iranian Revolt
August 5, 1954 — Days of Glory Appear at End For Mossadegh
August 7, 1956 — On the Political Front (Holmes Alexander)
July 6, 1985 — America Held Hostage (by George McGovern)
“Premier Mossadegh warns Americans to keep off the streets of Iran. It’s lucky we only have one major enemy—we could never survive more than one set of Allies.”
— Potomac Fever by Fletcher Knebel, March 4, 1953
Billboard magazine
August 4, 1951 — British M.P. Prefers Be-bop
November 24, 1951 — Washington Round-Up [National Press Club report]
LIFE magazine
August 11, 1952 — The Bystander Is Too Innocent
New Republic magazine
August 31, 1953 — Iran—No Change
Newsweek magazine
August 31, 1953 — Will Iran Be Another Korea?
U.S. News & World Report magazine
July 6, 1951 — Mossadegh Fights For Oil in Name of Iranian Poor
International
June 10, 1952 — Mossadeq spreekt met verdediger Perzische zaak (Limburgsch Dagblad, the Netherlands)
CIA Propaganda
November 3, 1951 — Glycerine ••• Or Just Oil?
December 17, 1951 — Tears Are New TV Vogue
March 31, 1953 — Stubbornness His Career
December 7, 1953 — Let's Rassle
“The strategic oil fields of the Middle East are now safer from Red seizure. With the overthrow of the Mossadegh regime in Iran, that country and Turkey present a more formidable barrier to Russia in that key area.”
— Ray Tucker, October 9, 1953
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