Hello, I am doing a project on the Iran coup in 1953, but I am having trouble aqquiring sources, is there any good book with an accurate summary of the events? Doesn't have to be a book can be anything from documentary to essays.
Abrahamian's "The Coup: 1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations" is commonly assigned reading for this subject.
Ervand Abrahamian is one of the leading historians of modern Iran. He characterizes himself as a democratic socialist- that's not to accuse him of bias, and this matters less for his analysis of 1953 than it does for for 1979-- but he is a participant as well as an historian.
The other commonly assigned book would be Mark Gasiorowski's Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran.
Very generally, Abrahamian is more Iranian history, and Gasiorowski is more about US diplomatic history.
If you want to dig into original source material, the Foreign Relations of the United States series declassified a lot of material in 2017
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952-1954, Iran, 1951–1954
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