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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1450 The CIA and 1953 Coup in Iran

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In 1979, as the Iranian Revolution was under way, Jimmy Carter called the 1953 ouster of Iranian prime minister "ancient history." But it wasn't. It poisoned Iranian-American relations through the late 1970s and indeed has continued to do so to this day. Hunt Tooley joins me to discuss this overlooked piece of history.

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Show notes for Ep. 1450

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 1450.

0:03.0

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0:07.6

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0:40.0

Hey everybody, Tom Woods here.

0:41.2

Hunt Tully is back with us.

0:42.8

Again, we just had him on last week to talk about the Treaty of Versailles, which had

0:47.4

rather something significant to do with how the 20th century unfolded.

0:51.8

So that one is not one to skip over, particularly my history people.

0:55.9

You've got to know that stuff.

0:57.3

But I'm having him back because I want to talk about an episode we have not yet covered on this show,

1:02.7

and that is the 1953 coup in Iran, led by British and U.S. intelligence against Mohammed Mosaddegh.

1:10.1

I mean, we're going to talk about the details of it, the Iranian

1:12.2

prime minister. And this had consequences for later. This is the classic example of what Ron Paul

1:19.3

referred to as blowback, a term he did not invent, but certainly helped to popularize. And I saw

1:25.2

that Hunt had given a talk on this, so I thought he's the perfect person

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