For our last podcast episode of the season (we'll be back in 2027) we wanted to talk about the first CIA sponsored coup, the success of which caused several other coups: Operation Ajax. It was the last coup for Great Britain and the first coup for the US.

Thank you all for a fun first season! We can't wait to show you what we have in store for the next one!

Sources:

Abrahamian, Ervand. “The 1953 Coup in Iran.” Science & Society 65, no. 2 (2001): 182–215.http://www.jstor.org.turing.library.northwestern.edu/stable/40403895.

“Aug. 19, 1953: Operation Ajax - Priya Satia.” Aug. 19, 1953: Operation Ajax - Priya Satia | Department of History, June 25, 2020.https://history.stanford.edu/news/aug-19-1953-operation-ajax-priya-satia.

Israeli, Ofer. 2013. “The Circuitous Nature of Operation Ajax.” Middle Eastern Studies 49 (2): 246–62. doi:10.1080/00263206.2012.759108.

BALAGHI, SHIVA. “SILENCED HISTORIES AND SANITIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHIES: THE 1953 CIA COUP IN IRAN.” Biography 36, no. 1 (2013): 71–96. http://www.jstor.org.turing.library.northwestern.edu/stable/23541162.