The CIA, Likud, and the October Surprise

In case you weren’t already aware of the October Surprise, here’s a bit of background. In 1953, the CIA’s Operation Ajax unseated Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, and inserted the U.S. friendly Mohammed Reza Pahlavi as the Shah (ancestral Monarch).  Mossadegh had to go because he was the chief architect of the nationalization [...]