Behind the 1953 Coup in Iran

Archival documents

• British Foreign Office: FO.

• British Petroleum Archives, University of Warwick: BP.

• Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), Iran, 1952–54: FRUS.

• Iranian Oral History Collection, Harvard University.

• National Security Archives, The George Washington University, Washington.

• RAIOH (Research Association of Iranian Oral History), Berlin.

Works in Persian

Abadiyan, H., Doctor Mozaffar Baqa’i (Tehran: Moaseseh Motale‘at va Pajoheshhaye Siyasi, 1377).

Afrasiyabi, B. and Dehqan, S., Taleqani dar Tarikh (Tehran: Niloufar, 1360).

Afrasiyabi, B., Khaterat va Mobarezat-e Doctor Hoseyn Fatemi (Tehran: Sokhan, 1366).

Aqeli, B., Sharh-e Hal-e Rejal Siyasi va Nezamiy-e Moaser Iran (Tehran: Goftar, 1380).

Ahmadi, M. R., Khaterat-e Ayatollah Gerami (Tehran: Markaz-e Asnad-e Enqelab-e Eslami, 1381).

Al-e Ahmad, J., Dar Khedmat va Khiyanat-e Rowshanfekran (Tehran: Ravaq, n.d).

‘Alikhani, A. N., Yaddashthay-e ‘Alam, vol. 1 (Bethesda: Iranbooks, 1992).

‘Alikhani, A. N., Yaddashthay-e ‘Alam, vol. 2 (Bethesda: Iranbooks, 1993).

‘Alikhani, A. N., Yaddashthay-e ‘Alam, vol. 3 (Bethesda: Iranbooks, 1995).

‘Alikhani, A. N., Yaddashthay-e ‘Alam, vol. 6 (Bethesda: Ibex Publishers, 2008).

Amir-Khosravi, B., Nazar az Darun be Naqshe Hezb Tudeh Iran (Tehran: Ettela‘at, 1375).

Aqeli, B., Roozshomar-e Tarikh-e Iran, vol.1 (Tehran: Nashr-e Goftar, 1369).

Aramesh, A., Haft sal dar zendan-e Ariyamehr (Tehran: Bongah-e Tarjomeh va nashr-e Ketab, 1358).

Araqi, M., Nagoftehha (Tehran: Rasa, 1370).

Askari, H., Shah, Mosaddeq, Sepahbod Zahedi (Sweden: Arash, 2000).

Azizi, G., Hezb-e Sosialist-e Melli-e Kargaran-e Iran (Tehran: Markaz-e Asnad-e Enqelab-e Eslami, 1383).

Baniahmad, A., Panj Rooz Rastakhiz-e Mellat-e Iran (Tehran: Chapkhaneh Artesh, n.d).

Be Ravayat-e Asnad-e SAVAK, Rowhaniy-e Mobarez Ayatollah Seyyed Abolqasem Kashani, vols.1 and 2 (Tehran: Markaz-e Barrasiy-e Asnad-e Tarikhiy-e Vezarat-e Ettela‘at, 1379).

Be Ravayat-e Asnad-e SAVAK, Seyyed Ziaeddin Tabatabai’e (Tehran: Markaz-e Barrasiy-e Asnad-e Tarikhiy-e Vezarat-e Ettela‘at, 1381).

Be Ravayat-e Asnad-e SAVAK, Mozaffar Baqa’i (Tehran: Markaz-e Barrasiy-e Asnad-e Tarikhiy-e Vezarat Ettela‘at, 1382).

Be Ravayat-e Asnad-e SAVAK, Rashidiyanha, vols 1, 2 & 3 (Tehran: Markaz-e Barrasiy-e Asnad-e Tarikhiy-e Vezarat Ettela‘at, 1389).

Be Ravayat-e Asnad-e SAVAK, Azad Mard: Shahid Tayeb Haj-Reza’i (Tehran: Markaz-e Barrasiy-e Asnad-e Tarikhiy-e Vezarat Ettela‘at,1378),

Be Ravayat-e Asnad-e SAVAK, Jebhey-e Melli (Tehran: Markaz-e Barrasiy-e Asnad-e Tarikhiy-e, 1379)

Behzadi, A., Shebh-e Khaterat, vol. 2 (Tehran: Ata‘i, 1388).

Bozorgmehr, J., Doctor Mohammad Mosaddeq dar Dadgah-e Tajdid Nazar (Tehran: Enteshar, 1365).

Elahi, S., Seyyed Zia, Mard Aval ya Mard-e Dovom-e Coup d’état (LA: Ketab Corp, 2011).

Fardust, H., Zohur va Soqute Saltanat-e Pahlavi, vol. 1 (Tehran: Entesharat-e Ettela‘at, 1390).

Golmohammadi, A., Jam’iyate Fadaiyan Eslam be Ravayat-e Asnad, vol. 2 (Tehran: Markaz-e Asnad-e Enqelab-e Eslami, 1382).

Homayoun, D., Man va Rouzegaram (Hamburg: Nashre Talash, 1387).

Hoseyni, M., Khaterat-e Mohammadmehdi ‘Abdkhoda’i (Tehran: Markaz-e Asnad-e Enqelab-e Eslami, 1379).

Jami, Gozashteh Cheraq Rahe Ayandeh (Tehran: Entesharat Niloufar, 1362).

Javanshir, F. M., Tajrobeh 28 Mordad (Tehran: Entesharat Hezb Toudeh Iran, 1359).

Karamipour, H., Khaterat-e Doctor Shervin (Tehran: Markaz-e Asnad-e Enqelab-e Eslami, 1384).

Ketab-e Siyah dar bareh Sazeman Afsaran Tudeh, n.a, (n.p, n.p, Esfand 1334).

Keymaram, M., Rofaqaye Bala (Tehran: Shabaviz, 1374).

Khameh’i, A., Az Ensha‘ab ta Kudeta (Tehran: Hafteh, 1363).

Khameh’i, A., Panjaho Seh Nafar (Entesharat Hafteh: Tehran n.d).

Lajevardi, H., Khaterat Amir Teymur Kalali (Bethesda, Markaz Motale ‘at Khavarmiyaneh Daneshgah Harvard, 1977).

Makki, H., Vaqaye’ Siyom-e Tir (Tehran: Entesharat-e ‘Elmi, 1378).

Maleki, A., Tarikhcheh Jebhey-e Melli (Tehran: Taban, n.d).

Manzarpour, A., Dar Koucheh va Khiyaban (Tehran: Vezarate Farhang o Ershad-e Eslami, 1386).

Mirza’i, S., Tayeb dar Gozar-e Lutiha (Tehran: Madiya, 1381).

Mohammadi, M. J., Raze Piruziye Kudetaye 28 Mordad (Koln: Forough, n.d).

Mosaddeq, G., Dar Kenar Pedaram (Tehran,Rasa, 1369).

Mosaddeq, M., Khaterat va Ta’alomat (Tehran: ‘Elmi, 1365).

Mossavar Rahmani, G., Kohneh Sarbaz (Tehran: Rasa, 1366).

Movahhed, M. A., Khabe Ashofteh Naft (Tehran: Karnameh, 1378).

Nejati, G. R, Jonbesh Melli Shodan-e Naft-e Iran (Tehran: Enteshar, 1366).

Pahlavi, M. R., Ma‘muriyat Baray-e Vatanam, (Paris: Parang, 1366).

Rahnema, A., Niruhaye Mazhabi bar bastar Nehzat-e Melli (Tehran: Gam-e No, 1384).

Safari, M. A., Qalam va Siyasat (Tehran: Namak, 1371).

Sahabi, E., Mosaddeq, Dowlat-e Melli va Koudeta (Tehran: Tarh-e No, 1380).

Salemi, M. H., Tarikh Nehzat-e Melli Shodan Naft-e Iran az Negahi Digar (Tehran: Markaz-e Asnad-e Enqelab-e Eslami, 1388).

Sanjabi, K., Omidha va Naomidiha (London : Nashre Ketab, 1368).

Sarshar, H., Sha‘ban Ja‘fari (Los Angeles: Nashr-e Nab, 1381).

Shahhoseyni, H., An Suye Khaterehha (Tehran: Samadiyeh, 1388),

Shifteh, N., Zendeginameh va Mobarezat Siyasiye doctor Mosaddeq (Tehran: Koomesh, 1370).

Tafazoli, A., Sargozashti Pishneveshteh (Tehran: Entesharat-e Atta’i, 1381).

Tafreshi, M. and Taherahmadi, M., Gozareshhay-e Mahramaneh Shahrebani, vol. 2 (Tehran: Entesharat-e Sazeman Asnad-e Melli, 1371).

Torbatiy-e Sanjabi, M., Koudetasazan (Tehran: Kavosh, 1376).

Torkaman, M., Tote’eh Robodan va Qatl-e Sarlashgar Afshartus (Tehran : Rasa, 1363).

Towfiq, A., Qanouni boodan ya nabodan-e farman-e azl Mosaddeq (Paris: Entesharat Sahand, 2008).

Varqa, M., Nagoftehha’i Piramoun-e Fororiziye Hokumat Mosaddeq va naqsh Hezbe Tudeh-e Iran (Tehran: Baztabnegar, 1384).

Zahedi, A., Khaterat-e Ardeshir Zahedi, vol. 1 (Tehran: Ketab Sara, 1385).

Zohtabfard, R., Ghoghaye Naft (Tehran: Chap Akhtar Shomal, n.d).

Works in English

Bayandor, D., Iran and the CIA (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

Cottam, R. W., Iran and the United States (PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988).

Cottam, R. W., Nationalism in Iran (PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1979).

Dorman, W. and Farhang, M., The U. S. Press and Iran (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987).

Dorril, S., MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations (London: Fourth Estate, 2001).

Falle, S., My Lucky Life (Sussex: The Book Guild, 1996).

Gasiorowski, M. J. and Byrne, M., (eds.) Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2004).

Louis, W. R., The British Empire in the Middle East 1945–1951 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984).

Love, K., The American Role in the Pahlavi Restoration on August 1953 (Unpublished manuscript, Allen Dulles Papers, Princeton University Library, 1960).

Luttwak, E., Coup d’état (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979).

Pahlavi, A., Faces in a Mirror (NJ: Prentice–Hall, 1980).

Roosevelt, K., Countercoup (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979).

Woodhouse, C. M., Something Ventured (London: Granada, 1982).

Further reading

Abrahamian, E., The Coup: 1953, The CIA and the Roots of modern U.S.-Iranian Relations (New York: New Press, 2013).

Azimi, F., Iran: The Crisis of Democracy (London: I.B.Tauris, 2009).

Bill, J. and Louis, Wm. R., Mussadiq, Iranian Nationalism, and Oil (London: I.B. Tauris 1988)

De Bellaigue, C., Patriot of Persia (New York: Harper, 2012).

Katouzian, H., Musaddiq and the Struggle for Power in Iran (London: I.B. Tauris, 1999).

Kinzer, S., All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (New Jersey: Wiley, 2008).