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'''Operation Ajax''', also known as '''Operation Boot''' and '''The TPAJAX Project''', was the codename for a [[State terrorism]] campaign undertaken by the governments of the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland to overthrow the democratically elected government of Iran intended to consolidate the reign of [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]] in order to protect Western interests. | '''Operation Ajax''', also known as '''Operation Boot''' and '''The TPAJAX Project''', was the codename for a [[State terrorism]] campaign undertaken by the governments of the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland to overthrow the democratically elected government of Iran intended to consolidate the reign of [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]] in order to protect Western interests. | ||
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== Operation Ajax == | == Operation Ajax == | ||
Operation Ajax began when the CIA drew up plans for Pahlavi to sack Mosaddegh and replace him with a Pahlavi loyalist. However, a | Operation Ajax began when the CIA drew up plans for Pahlavi to sack Mosaddegh and replace him with a Pahlavi loyalist. However, a communist party discovered the plot and warned Mosaddegh, who stopped the plan. Figuring out what had happened, Mosaddegh ordered that the CIA be expelled from Iran, but MI6 intervened and prevented the CIA from receiving the message. Mosaddegh also ordered Pahlavi's arrest for his involvement in the attempted coup, forcing him to flee. | ||
Following this failure, the CIA introduced a new approach of sending funding to Pahlavi loyalists working to start a rebellion against Mosaddegh. This took the form of disguising insurgents as members of the Communist party that tipped Mosaddegh off about the first attempted coup and having them rally the actual party members to riot and attack symbols of Capitalism. This resulted in the Iranians fighting against the Communists, who Mosaddegh was known to have supported in the past, and ultimately defeating them and storming Tehran. Mosaddegh fled, but ultimately handed himself in and was imprisoned. Pahlavi then took his position again and once again increased his power, as well as handing Iran's oil monopoly over to Britain and America as a reward for their involvement in the coup. | Following this failure, the CIA introduced a new approach of sending funding to Pahlavi loyalists working to start a rebellion against Mosaddegh. This took the form of disguising insurgents as members of the Communist party that tipped Mosaddegh off about the first attempted coup and having them rally the actual party members to riot and attack symbols of Capitalism. This resulted in the Iranians fighting against the Communists, who Mosaddegh was known to have supported in the past, and ultimately defeating them and storming Tehran. Mosaddegh fled, but ultimately handed himself in and was imprisoned. Pahlavi then took his position again and once again increased his power, as well as handing Iran's oil monopoly over to Britain and America as a reward for their involvement in the coup. | ||
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