Spotlighting an Author - Ervand Abrahamian: Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup d'Etat

17/08/2021 1h 14min

Listen "Spotlighting an Author - Ervand Abrahamian: Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup d'Etat"

Episode Synopsis

This episode is an audio version of an event in which Dr. Ervand Abrahamian, a renowned historian discussed his latest book "Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup D'Etat". Abrahamian provided analysis on recently declassified CIA and US State Department documents from the Mossadeq administration. He told the story of the Iranian oil crisis, which would eventually culminate in the coup of August 1953. During the extensive Q&A section of the event, Abrahamian answered questions with topics from the Anglo-Soviet Occupation of Iran in 1941 to the revisionist history surrounding the events of 1953, to the lasting effects of the 1953 coup d'etat in both Iran and the United States today.

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