The CIA revealed new details about one of its most famed operations — the rescue of six American diplomats who escaped the 1979 U.S. Embassy seizure in Tehran.
ByIranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh rides on the shoulders of cheering crowds in Tehran's Majlis Square, outside the parliament building, on Sept. 27, 1951. The CIa for the first time has acknowledged something else as well. The CIA now officially describes the 1953 coup it backed in Iran as undemocratic.
Other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, but the CIA’s acknowledgment in a podcast about the agency’s history comes as much of its official history of the coup remains classified 70 years after the putsch.
“The U.S. admission never translated into compensatory action or a genuine commitment to refrain from future interference, nor did it change its subversive policy towards the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the mission said in a statement. But in the podcast, which aired about a month before Hamas’ unprecedented attack Saturday on Israel, another brief exchange focuses on the 1953 coup in Iran.
Seven decades later, the 1953 coup remains as hotly debated as ever by Iran, its theocratic government, historians and others. That’s led to an American political reappraisal of the 1953 CIA action in Iran. Then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright acknowledged the U.S.’ “significant role” in the coup in 2000. President Barack Obama, speaking in Cairo in 2009, described the CIA’s work as leading to the “overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government.”
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