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Patriot of Persia

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by Christopher de Bellaigue


  9. Mehdi Bazargan, ibid., from Basteh-Negar, p. 141

  10. Malcom Byrne, The Road to Intervention: Factors Influencing US Policy Toward Iran, 1945–53, from Gasiorowski and Byrne, p. 201

  11. Fateh, p. 517

  12. The Economist, November 17, 1951, cit. Enayat, p. 139

  13. Minutes of a meeting between the AIOC and Iranian government officials on June 17, 1951, FO 371/91575

  14. Harriman to Truman, August 22, 1951, FRUS, p. 145

  15. Sanjabi, p. 125

  16. Elm, Mostafa, Oil, Power and Principle, Syracuse University Press, 1992

  17. Memo by Stutesman, May 31, 1951, FRUS, p. 59

  18. Henderson to State Department, September 30, 1951, FRUS p. 186

  19. Esfandiary Bakhtiari, p. 127

  20. Milani, p. 51

  21. Walters, p. 247

  22. Abramson, p. 472

  23. Acheson, p. 503

  24. Walters, p. 247

  25. New York Herald, July 15, 1951, cit. Elm, p. 122

  Eleven: Winning America

  1. Security Council Official Records, 559th Meeting, cit. Kinzer, p. 121

  2. Mossadegh, Ghollamhossein, p. 80

  3. Walters, p. 261

  4. The Times, October 16, 1951

  5. For more details of the proposed deal, see McGhee, pp. 397–99

  6. The Associated Press, October 28, 1951

  7. Mossadegh, Ghollamhossein, p. 91

  8. McGhee, p. 385

  9. FRUS

  10. The Times, November 20, 1951

  Twelve: Riding Satan’s Donkey

  1. Nejati, Mossadegh: Salha-ye Mobarezeh va Moqavemat, p. 265

  2. Buzorgmehr, Khaterat az Doktor Muhammad Mossadegh, p. 144

  3. Makki, Ketab-e Siyah (Vol. III, Khal’ e-Yad) p. 241, and Nejati, Mossadegh (Vol. 1), p. 264.

  4. For these and other insights into Mossadegh’s prime ministerial style, I have drawn on Morteza Rasoolipour.

  5. Henderson to State Department, January 15, 1951, FRUS p. 324

  6. Penfield to State Department, January 18, 1951, FRUS p. 331

  7. Muvahed, pp 388–89

  8. Safari, Vol. 1, p. 582

  9. An excellent English-language account of relations between the Shah, the British and the political elite between 1941 and 1953 can be found in Fakhreddin Azimi’s Iran: The Crisis of Democracy.

  10. For my account of Mossadegh’s meeting with the Shah, I have drawn from Makki, Vaghayeh-e Si-ye Tir-e. My telling of the subsequent uprising owes much to this book and to Hassan Arsanjani’s Yaddashtha-ye Siyasi dar Vaghayeh-e Si-ye Tir-e 1320.

  11. Khamei, p. 950

  12. Author interview with Hedayat Matine-Daftary, London, 2011

  13. Wm. Roger Louis, Britain and the Overthrow of Mossadegh, from Gasiorowski and Byrne, p. 166

  14. Rahnama, p. 685

  15. Nejati, Mossadegh, p. 484

  16. MacLean, p. 274

  17. Harvard Iranian Oral History Project, see transcript of Habib Ladjevardi’s interview with Sir George Middleton in November 1985

  18. Rahnama, Ali, Nirooha-ye Mazhabi bar Bastar-e Harekat-e Nehzat-e Melli, Gam-e No, 2005, p.815

  19. Harvard Iranian Oral History Project, transcript of Habib Ladjevardi’s interview with Sir George Middleton in November 1985

  20. Ibid.

  21. Henderson to State Department, February 22, 1953, FRUS p. 676

  22. Safari, Vol. 1, p. 746

  23. Mossadegh, Ghollamhossein, p. 65

  Thirteen: A Coup of his Own

  1. Ettela’at, May 11, 1953

  2. Rahnama, p. 940

  3. Malcom Byrne, ‘The Road to Intervention: Factors Influencing US Policy Toward Iran, 1945–1953’, from Gasiorowski and Byrne, p. 223

  4. Woodhouse, p. 117

  5. Dorril, p. 583

  6. Love, p. 24

  7. Sanjabi, Omidha va Na-omidha, p. 138

  8. Editorial note regarding Dulles’s press conference of July 28, 1953, FRUS, p. 740

  9. In 1954, Wilber was commissioned to write a CIA internal history of the coup, ‘Clandestine Service History, Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq of Iran, November 1952–August 1953’, which the New York Times acquired and posted on its website in 2000, with some names omitted. This internal history, along with Kim Roosevelt’s account of the operation, Countercoup, are the two main first-hand accounts of the American side of the operation, subsequently amplified by the interviews and research of Mark Gasiorowski. The internal history can be seen at: http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index.html. My own efforts to gain access to MI6 records of events before and during the coup were rebuffed by the British authorities.

  10. Mark J. Gasiorowski, ‘The 1953 Coup d’Etat Against Mosaddeq’, from Gasiorowski and Byrne, p. 245

  11. Record of a telephone conversation between Allen and Foster Dulles, July 24, 1953, FRUS, p. 738

  12. Dorril, p. 588

  13. Roosevelt, Kermit, Countercoup, McGraw, 1979, p. 146

  14. Roosevelt, Arabs, Oil and History: The Story of the Middle East, p. 103

  15. Roosevelt, Countercoup, p. 110

  16. Roosevelt, Countercoup, p. 154

  17. Harvard Iranian Oral History Project, cit. Katouzian, Musaddiq and the Struggle for Power in Iran, p. 187

  18. Katouzian, Introduction to Maleki, p. 104

  19. Be Revayat-e Asnad, Rohani-ye Mobarez, Ayatollah Seyyed Abolqassem Kashani (Vol. 2) Markaz-e Barrassi-ye Asnad-e Tarikhi-ye Vezarat-e Ettela’at, 2000, p. 589

  20. Rahnama, p. 972

  21. Wilber, internal history, p. 38

  Fourteen: Mussy Duck Shoot

  1. Safari, Vol. 1, p. 831

  2. Ettela’at, August 16, 1953

  3. Roosevelt, Countercoup, p. 173

  4. Safari, Vol. 1, p. 833

  5. Ibid., p. 834

  6. Bakhtar-e Emrooz, August 16, 1953

  7. Ghollamreza Nejati’s interview with Ghollamhossein Sadiqi, from Nejati’s Jonbesh-e Melli, p. 535

  8. Ettela’at, August 17, 1953

  9. Ibid.

  10. Safari, Vol. 1, p. 859

  11. Henderson to State Department, August 18, 1953, FRUS, p. 752

  12. Ettela’at, August 17, 1953

  13. Mark J. Gasiorowski, ‘Coup d’Etat Against Mosaddeq’, from Gasiorowski, and Byrne, p. 254

  14. Rahnama, p. 1008

  15. Love, Kennett, The American Role in the Pahlavi Restoration on August 19, 1953, n.p.

  16. We will probably never have a flawless account of the events of August 19, 1953. There are too many competing testimonies, and there was a great deal of confusion on the day. For my account, in addition to the different American versions by Gasiorowski, Wilber, Roosevelt and Love, I am indebted to various editions of the newspaper Ettela’at, Ghollamreza Nejati’s Jonbesh-e Melli Shodan-e San’at-e Naft-e Iran va Kudeta-ye 28 Mordad, 1332, with its important eye-witness testimonies, Nejati’s interview with Ghollamhossein Sadiqi in the same book, Ali Shayegan’s telling of events in his son Ahmad’s book Seyyed Ali Shayegan; Zendeginameh-ye Siyasi, Neveshtehha va Sokhanraniha, Muhammad-Ali Muvahed’s magisterial Khab-e Ashufteh-e Naft, with its extracts from Kazem Hassibi’s unpublished diary, the reporter Muhammad-Ali Safari’s recollections in Qalam va Siyasat, as well as my own conversations with Dr Hossein Fatemi’s nephew Said Fatemi and the political activist Nasser Takmil-Homayun in Tehran, as well as Mossadegh’s grandson Hedayat Matine-Daftary.

  17. Shahri, Vol. III, p. 411

  18. Keyhan, August 20, 1953

  19. Love, p. 39

  20. Mossadegh, Ghollamhossein, p. 121

  21. Ibid., p. 122

  Fifteen: Unperson

  1. New York Times, August 22, 1953

  2. Pahlavi, Muhammad-Reza,

  3. Henderson to State Department, September 18, 1953, FRUS, p. 799

  4. Memo by Byroade, August 21, 1953, FRUS, p. 760

  5. For my account of Mossadegh’s trials I have drawn heavily on Buzo
rgmehr’s three books about the proceedings (see Bibliography)

  6. Khandaniha, November 7, 1953

  7. The Times, Wednesday December 2, 1953

  8. Diba, p. 190

  9. Memo by Falle, September 3, 1953, FO 371/104584

  10. Nejati, Mossadegh, Vol. 2, p. 301

  11. Le Monde, December 9, 1965

  12. Sami’i, p. 125

  13. Torkaman, Vol. 1, p. 274

  14. Ibid., p. 290

  15. Mossadegh, Ghollamhossein, p. 147

  16. Sami’i, p. 100

  17. Ibid., p. 124

  18. Ibid., p. 347

  19. Sami’i, p. 175

  Epilogue: A Movement in Men’s Minds

  1. Hiro, p. 106

  2. Kinzer, p. 206. In the words of Maziar Behrooz, an Iranian scholar of the Tudeh, ‘The Tudeh neither had the intention nor the power to oust Mosaddeq.’ (Maziar Behrooz, ‘Legacy of the Tudeh’, from Gasiorowski and Byrne, p. 124)

  3. Roosevelt, Countercoup, p. 207

  4. Parsi-Pour, unpublished article

  5. Avon, p. 36

  6. Love, p. 41

  7. New York Times, March 5, 1979

  8. Author interview with Hedayat Matine-Daftary, London, 2011

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