The overthrow of Mossadegh (مصدق) in the coup of 1953 and bisto-hashte Mordad (مرداد ۲۸).
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Production excerpts from Archival's "The Third Path," an upcoming 12-part series covering the recent history of Iran.
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Staff Credits -
Director/Producer: Shannon Niehus
Creative Director: Michael Knapp
Editor: Rosalee Chan
Multimedia Artist: Miriam Heller
Graphic Design: Matt Heller
Visual Effects: Jim Millen
Researcher: Ladan Sepehri and Golzar Sepehri
Assistant Producer: Maureen Sandlin
Production Credits -
DP: Joe Orlandi
Video Transcript -
The coup was predominantly a military coup, basically organized by the CIA and the British. The whole thing became a fiasco because Mosaddegh's side knew what was happening, and they had allocated enough troops there.
Mosaddegh was presented with a document saying he was no longer prime minister. He didn't accept this as a legal document. Visible leaders of the coup were arrested right that night. But the other side of the coup, the military side of the coup, was still intact.
What happened on bisto-hashte Mordad (مرداد ۲۸) is not really a spontaneous public uprising, which revisionist historians like to claim. It's actually implementation of the military side of the planned coup.
Henderson, the American ambassador, had to persuade Mosaddegh that crowds had to be off the streets, that America would withdraw recognition of Mosaddegh's government unless the streets were clear. This persuaded Mosaddegh to instruct all supporters to stay home.
Then the demonstrations organized by the CIA of the street thugs, bringing in actually some peasants from the villages, from outside Tehran, 3,000, 4,000 people coming from lower part of Tehran into the bazaar, into the north, beating up newspapers sellers, attacking publishing houses. Then the chief of staff ordered some troops in from the barracks, and of course, once those tanks were permitted to exit from the barracks into Tehran, they basically had the city under military control.
