Orchestrated Chaos: The Corporate Coup of Operation Ajax

In 1951, Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh, made a fatal geopolitical decision: he nationalized his country's massive oil reserves, kicking out the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (which would later become British Petroleum). Great Britain, financially devastated and desperate to regain its lucrative monopoly, convinced the United States to orchestrate a regime change. T...