Over 400 International Testimonies
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The Mossadegh Project |
"In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government." - President Barack Obama - June 4, 2009
Written, Compiled and Edited by Arash Norouzi
Years in the making, The Mossadegh Project presents the most ambitious testimonial record ever assembled of the 1953 coup d’etat against the legitimate, peaceful, democratic government of Iran’s popular
Prime Minister, Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh.
You will hear from over 400 figures including world leaders, diplomats, foreign policy analysts, military personnel, authors, intellectuals, journalists, politicians, CIA officials, Pulitzer prize winners, Nobel Prize laureates,
Academy Award winners, and many others.
The purpose of this archive is to permanently document public statements made pertaining to the 1953 coup in Iran. These testimonies have significant historical value, revealing international attitudes and perspectives, past and
present, on a key event in Iranian, British and American history.
A definitive multimedia resource with text, audio and video, mohammadmossadegh.com/1953/ will be regularly updated and categorized for quick reference. It’s a reservoir of
information that certain people don’t want you to see, documenting one of the most significant, relevant, and yet little-known world events of the past 100 years.
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Noteworthy: 
United States Presidents
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Bill Clinton
Barack Obama
Harry Truman Administration
Harry S. Truman (President of the United States, 1946-1953)
Dean Acheson (U.S. Secretary of State, 1949-1953)
Henry F. Grady (U.S. Ambassador to Iran, 1950-1951)
Loy Henderson (U.S. Ambassador to Iran, 1951-1954)
George C. McGhee (Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, 1949-1951)
Henry A. Byroade (Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, 1952-1955)
Stanley Andrews (U.S. Adviser on Food and Agriculture to the Postwar Military Governments of Italy and Germany; Director, Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations, Department of Agriculture, 1949-1951; Administrator, Technical Cooperation Administration, 1951-1953)
Vernon A. Walters (Interpreter)
Dwight D. Eisenhower Administration
Dwight David Eisenhower (President of the United States, 1953-1961)
Richard M. Nixon (Vice President of the United States, 1953-1961)
John Foster Dulles (U.S. Secretary of State, 1949-1953)
Christian A. Herter (Under Secretary of State, 1957-1959, Secretary of State, 1959-1961)
Loy Henderson (U.S. Ambassador to Iran, 1951-1954)
Henry A. Byroade (Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, 1952-1955)
William B. Ewald, Jr. (Special Assistant to the President (speechwriter), 1954-56; Assistant to the Secretary of the Interior, 1956-61)
Vernon A. Walters (Interpreter)
John F. Kennedy Administration
Christian A. Herter (U.S. Trade Representative, 1962-1966)
Lyndon B. Johnson Administration
Ramsey Clark (Deputy Attorney General, 1965-1967, U.S. Attorney General, 1967-1969)
Bill Moyers (Assistant to the President, Chief of Staff, White House Press Secretary, 1965-1967)
Christian A. Herter (U.S. Trade Representative, 1962-1966)
Richard Nixon Administration
Richard Milhouse Nixon (President of the United States, 1969-1974)
Henry Kissinger (National Security Adviser, 1969-1975, U.S. Secretary of State, 1973-1977)
Raymond J. Waldmann (Staff Assistant to the President 1971-1974)
Gerald Ford Administration
Gerald Ford (President of the United States, 1974-1977)
Dick Cheney (White House Chief of Staff, 1975-1977)
Henry Kissinger (National Security Adviser, 1969-1975)
Raymond J. Waldmann (Staff Assistant to the President 1971-1974, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation and Telecommunications, 1974-1976)
Jimmy Carter Administration
James Earl Carter, Jr. (President of the United States, 1977-1981)
Walter Mondale (Vice President, 1977-1981)
Hamilton Jordan (White House Chief of Staff, 1979-1980)
Edmund Muskie (U.S. Secretary of State, 1980-1981)
Zbigniew Brzezinski (National Security Adviser, 1977-1981)
Andrew Young (United Nations Ambasador, 1977-1979)
Patricia Derian (Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, 1977-1981)
Ronald Reagan Administration
Alan Greenspan (Federal Reserve Chairman, 1987-2006)
David Stockman (Director of the Office of Management and Budget, 1981-1985)
William Bennett (Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1981-1985, Secretary of Education, 1985-1988)
Elliott Abrams (Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, May-Dec. 1981, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, 1981-1985, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, 1985-1989)
Richard Perle (Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs, 1981-1987)
Vernon A. Walters (U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 1985-1989)
Raymond J. Waldmann (Assistant Secretary for International Economic Policy, Department of Commerce, 1981-1983)
George H. W. Bush Administration
Dick Cheney (Secretary of Defense, 1989-1993)
Ryan Crocker (U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, Iraq, 2004-2009)
William Bennett (Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, 1989-1990)
Vernon A. Walters (U.S. Ambassador to West Germany, 1989-1991, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1990-1991)
Bill Clinton Administration
William Jefferson Clinton (President of the United States, 1993-2001)
Madeleine Albright (Secretary of State, 1997-2001)
Hillary Clinton (First Lady, 1993-2001)
Robert Reich (U.S. Secretary of Labor, 1993-1997)
Bill Richardson (U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 1997-1998, Secretary of Energy, 1998-2001)
Wendy Sherman (Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs)
R. Nicholas Burns (State Department Spokepersperson, 1995-1997, U.S. Ambassador to Greece, 1997-2001)
George W. Bush Administration
Dick Cheney (Vice President of the United States, 2001-2009)
Elliott Abrams (Special Assistant to the President, 2001-2005, Deputy National Security Adviser, 2005-2009)
Ryan Crocker (U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, Iraq, 2004-2009)
R. Nicholas Burns (U.S. Ambassador to Greece, 1997-2001, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, 2001-2005,
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, 2005-2008)
Richard Perle (Chairman of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee, 2001-2003)
Richard W. Painter (Chief ethics lawyer, 2005-2007)
John Marshall Evans (U.S. Ambassador to Armenia, 2004-2006)
Barack Obama Administration
Barack Hussein Obama (President of the United States, 2009-2017)
Hillary Clinton (U.S. Secretary of State, 2009-2013)
John Kerry (U.S. Secretary of State, 2013-2017)
Wendy Sherman (Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, 2011-2015, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, 2014-2015)
Josh Earnest (White House Press Secretary)
Philip H. Gordon (Special Assistant to the President, White House Coordinator for the Middle East, 2013-2015), Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, 2009-2015)
Donald J. Trump Administration
Steve Bannon (White House Chief Strategist & Senior Counselor to the President, Jan.-Aug. 2017)
John Bolton (National Security Adviser, 2018-2019)
Michael Flynn (National Security Advisor, Jan.-Feb. 2017)
Elliott Abrams (Special Envoy for Venezuela)
Anthony Scaramucci (White House Director of Communications, July 21-31, 2017)
Brian Hook (U.S. Special Representative for Iran and Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of State)
Joe Biden Administration
John Kerry (U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate)
Philip H. Gordon (National Security Advisor to the Vice President, 2022-present, Deputy National Security Advisor to the Vice President, 2021-2022)
R. Nicholas Burns (U.S. Ambassador to China, 2022-2025)
Donald J. Trump Administration
Tulsi Gabbard (Director of National Intelligence)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Secretary of Health and Human Services)
U.S. Government Officials, Diplomats & Politicians
U.S. Congressmen and Congresswomen
U.S. Senators
CIA Director Allen Dulles Praises Operation Ajax As a "Major Victory"
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
U.S. State Department
United States Military
American Hostages Held in Iran
American Journalists / Authors / Writers
Black Americans
American Professors
Foreign Policy Analysts
Artists / Writers / Performers
Musicians
Political Cartoonists
Hollywood
Miscellaneous
British Government
British Journalists
British Professors
British Entertainers
Iranian Government
Iranian Figures
Iranian Authors/Scholars/Analysts
International
Religious Leaders
Nobel Peace Prize Winners
THE FOLLY OF COUP-DENIAL | by Arash Norouzi
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