New History Podcast Reviews the Mossadegh Saga
Arash Norouzi The Mossadegh Project | February 7, 2019 |
National Public Radio’s new weekly podcast, Throughline, aims to provide historical context for the events that shape our world, and its debut program today offers just that — an overview of the origins of U.S.-Iran enmity.
The show features a narrative account of the August 1953 coup against Premier Mossadegh, a primer on Howard Baskerville, interviews with author Stephen Kinzer, Sanam Vakil of Chatham House, Dr. Ebrahim Norouzi of the Mossadegh Project, and author Roya Hakakian, along with the acoustical accompaniment of some of the sounds of the era.
Versions of Throughline, hosted and produced by Ramtin Arablouei and Rund Abdelfatah in Washington DC, will also air on NPR’s Morning Edition.
Summary: “It’s no secret that Iran and the U.S. have a history of animosity toward each other. But when and how did it begin? This week we look back at four days in August 1953, when the CIA orchestrated a coup of Iran’s elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh.”
In August 1953, the U.S. government had a bold plan -- to execute a secret CIA operation to overthrow Iran’s elected prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. @throughlineNPR examines the U.S. agency's role in the coup. https://t.co/18TgOVfNS4 pic.twitter.com/uG9angSx5B
— NPR (@NPR) February 8, 2019
Show preview and interview with the hosts on Morning Edition with Steve Inskeep — Feb. 7, 2019
Summary: “The new NPR history podcast Throughline traces the bitterness between Iran and the U.S. back to a 1953 CIA plot to overthrow Iran's rightfully elected leader.”
Related links:
LOST IN IRAQ: The Shah’s Baghdad Sojourn
Ayatollah Kashani’s Threat to Mossadegh | CIA Reports, Sept. 1952
Campaign To Install Pro-Western Government In Iran | CIA, 1954
MOSSADEGH t-shirts — “If I sit silently, I have sinned”




