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All the Shah’s Men
by Stephen Kinzer
Info: Kinzer, Stephen. All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2003.
Synopsis: All the Shah’s Men recounts Britain’s exploitation of Iran through the Anglo Persian Oil Company and democratically-elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh’s campaign for the nationalization of Iran’s oil. It argues that in 1953 Mossadegh was oustged from power by a CIA- and M16-arranged coup in Tehran that would restore control of Iran to the Shah. After more than twenty years of rule under the Shah, in 1979 Iran erupted into a bloody revolution to which Kinzer attributes the rise of the Islamic Republic that Iran is today.
