
Publisher: Knopf
Author: John Ghazvinian
ISBN: 9780307271815
Format: Hardback
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This wide-ranging history begins with the mutual admiration that existed in the 18th century between the founders of the US and the Persian Empire. Tracing their early interactions and American support for Iran against British oil interests between the wars, it then discusses how the CIA coup that overthrew the Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq in 1953 soured the friendship between the two countries and led to decades of hostility. Slightly off-mint with felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge and American cut pages.