00:03:30.94069 years ago on august 19 1953 the resurrection of the iranian nation took place while on one
00:03:42.420hand Mossadegh supporters called that day the american destruction of iran's last chance to
00:03:48.660become prosperous Mossadegh opponents however celebrate this day and call it the liberation
00:03:54.640of iran from the tyranny of one of iran's wealthiest feudal landlords and reactionaries
00:04:00.220Wait, feudal landlord? Reactionary? No way! Wasn't Mossadegh a progressive, self-made man who fought for freedom?
00:04:08.160I'm sorry to disappoint you, but that is not true.
00:04:11.560Mossadegh was a descendant of the Turkey Qajars who had occupied Iran and imposed their brutal dictatorship on the Iranian people for almost 200 years.
00:04:22.500Owning huge estates through forged papers, Mossadegh was a wealthy landlord and eventually married a Qajar princess and was given the office of a provincial finance minister.
00:04:36.320Within just 10 years, he became one of Iran's richest landowners, totally via his merit and not at all because of his relations and positions of power.
00:04:45.560Mossadegh was anti-democratic and always sided with the tyrannical Qajar aristocracy.
00:04:54.180He was an opponent of the democratic movement in Iran
00:04:58.260and back then you could already see his unpatriotic behavior
00:05:02.540when he sided with Muhammad Ali Shah Qajar to torpedo Iran back
00:05:07.380from a parliamentary monarchy to an absolute monarchy.
00:05:11.000Even after the restoration of the constitution in 1909,
00:05:14.920Mosaddegh still defended the unpopular Hajar dynasty and during Reza Khan's seizure of power
00:05:22.420he was rightly put in prison for treason. Ironically Mosaddegh was freed from jail by the young Shah of
00:05:28.800Iran Muhammad Reza Pahlavi whom he later betrayed as well as we are going to see in this video.
00:05:35.460Mosaddegh was not a man of progress. He had never realized how important it was to industrialize
00:05:42.540Iran and longed back to the good old days when Western technology had not yet begun to change
00:05:48.520the world. He was strongly opposed to the construction of railways and argued that
00:05:53.680Iranians did not need railways, roads or ports. There was no need to travel. It would be much
00:05:59.900more comfortable to stay at home. What do we expect from a man who receives state guests
00:06:05.020in pyjamas in his bedroom? During his term as prime minister, Mossadegh exploited the oil
00:06:10.620dispute with britain to slowly establish a dictatorship in iran mozadek violated the
00:06:18.720constitution and dissolved the senate the kurds and the parliament after it expressed the will
00:06:25.200to impeach him eventually he received his letter of dismissal by the shah but refused to resign
00:06:31.920and launched a full-on military coup d'etat yeah what a democrat the shah seeing this left the
00:06:37.700country to give the iranians the freedom to choose between mosaddegh and him the iranians chose him
00:06:44.000as we are going to see in this video mosaddegh's increasing anti-constitutional authoritarianism
00:06:50.940was initially tolerated by the iranians who saw it as a necessary evil to nationalize the oil
00:06:57.260industry but when it became clear that mosaddegh wanted to overt show the parliamentary monarchy
00:07:04.360the masses mobilized and occupied tehran declaring their loyalty to the shah and his
00:07:10.200appointed prime minister zahedi and when mossadeh sent the army to restore order
00:07:14.680the army sided with the people and the constitution
00:07:21.800despite all the documents mentioned there is not the slightest hint of a massive cia
00:07:28.360involvement in the overthrow of mossad on august 19th yet professional historical revisionists
00:07:35.480well organized in universities and the media constantly stress the opposite the most prominent
00:07:41.640of these historical revisionists being ervant abrahamian and malcolm burn first let's look at
00:07:48.840mr abrahamian in his book coup d'etat abrahamian claims that the plans for the events of the 19th
00:07:56.760of august were implemented after the meeting between u.s ambassador loy henderson and mossadek
00:08:02.200on august 18th one day before the overthrow but if we check the cia reports on that specific day
00:08:10.600we not only see that the cia had no plans or predictions for that day but that the united
00:08:17.720states was even preparing for a compromise with mossadek let's look at this character for a moment
00:08:23.320Abrahamian is not only a sympathizer of the Islamic Republic, justifying their rule as an inevitable response to American imperialism, but he is also a sympathizer of the past terrorist Tudor party in Iran.
00:08:39.480In his interview with Fatibah Amini on August 18, 2020, he described the Tudor Party as follows.
00:08:46.980The Tudor Party was actually a nationalist party with leftist tendencies.
00:08:54.760Let this description melt in your mouth.
00:08:57.080For everyone who does not know, the Tudor Party was a communist party founded by the USSR during the Soviet occupation of Iran in 1941.
00:09:05.280They were one of the most active parties who continuously worked towards the overture of the Pahlavi dynasty
00:09:12.160and with it the destruction of the Iranian state.
00:09:14.800In 1944, the Tudor Party entered Iranian parliament where they supported the Soviet policies in Iran without protest.
00:09:22.760The Tudor Party not only supported Moscow's plans to balkanize northern Iran,
00:09:27.880but also held its fourth plenum in Moscow under the direct supervision of the Soviet Union.
00:09:33.660Now, imagine someone who describes the treacherous Marxist-Leninist to the party as a nationalist party being an Iran expert, let alone being a credible historian.
00:09:44.640Having ticked off Mr. Abrahamian, let's proceed to the other history forger, Malcolm Byrne.
00:09:49.480Since 2013, various individuals and media outlets have repeatedly referenced a website and fake headline
00:09:57.340that has nothing to do with the CIA to prove that the CIA acknowledged its role on August 19.
00:10:05.100This website is linked to the Washington State University and has absolutely no ties to the CIA.
00:10:11.880The fact that the CIA's official website has never admitted to playing a role in Mossadegh's overthrow
00:10:17.600just proves that this headline is made up and backed by no evidence.
00:10:23.480The so-called National Security Archive website is run by journalists
00:10:30.620The map you can see here was designed by Ali Rahnaman,
00:10:33.880one of Mossadegh's admirers, 60 years after Mossadegh's removal.
00:10:37.900It has been inserted into the release document so that the VO believes
00:10:41.880that this was part of a pre-arranged CIA plan to attack Mossadegh's house.
00:10:47.040The funniest thing about this article with the fake headline CIA Confession is the use of pictures with the watermark of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary History of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
00:11:02.560I wonder how secret the CIA documents must be if even the Islamic Republic of Iran has access to them.
00:11:10.920It is also interesting to note that in this article in which Malcolm Byrne claims to have published documents on the role of the CIA on August 19, his second document proves the opposite.
00:11:28.340The nationalists and communists during this period inadvertently assisted our cause
00:11:33.120through their premature attempts to promote a republican government.
00:11:37.080This theme was contrary to the public's opinion, whose sympathies were with the Shah.
00:11:44.820The Shah's dramatic flight out of the country served to further intensify his people's sense of loyalty to him.
00:11:51.020This action resulted in literal revolt of the population.
00:11:56.200To sum it up, Malcolm Byrne, who wrote this fake article, is not representative of the CIA and was never authorized to comment on their behalf.
00:12:09.240The goal of the National Front, since its foundation by Mossadegh, was the overture of Iran's parliamentary monarchy
00:12:16.760and the abolition of its constitution to establish a republic,
00:12:21.120although not everyone within the National Front was subscribed to this.
00:12:24.840One could say that Mossadegh's National Front was in fact the legal continuation of the Communist Tudor Party,
00:12:30.300which had been declared illegal after a failed assassination attempt on the Shah of Iran.
00:12:34.260While the National Front championed Mossadegh's authoritarianism in Parliament,
00:12:38.260the Tudor Party organized violent demonstrations in the streets.
00:12:41.580Both parties were working hand-in-hand to abolish Iran's constitutional monarchy.
00:12:46.760Mossadegh was, contrary to circulating claims, not a democratically elected prime minister.
00:12:52.760The Iranian constitution did not provide for free elections of the prime minister,
00:12:57.160but for the Shah to appoint and remove the prime minister.
00:13:00.160And when in 1952, the parliament refused to grant Mossadegh additional powers,
00:13:05.480Mossadegh got enraged and immediately resigned.
00:13:08.280So you didn't receive emergency powers and decided to throw a tantrum?
00:13:13.700Ahmad Qawam became the next prime minister but was met with massive protests from Mossadegh's supporters,
00:13:19.980especially the Tudor party, demanding the resignation of Ahmad Qawam.
00:13:24.240The Shah, to avoid a civil war, reinstated Mossadegh as prime minister
00:13:27.640and the parliament was forced to accept Mossadegh's demands for further emergency powers,
00:13:32.880which empowered him to rule the country by decree.
00:13:35.540After the overthrow of Mossadegh's government,
00:13:37.960subsequent interrogations of traitors proved that most of Mossadegh's followers
00:13:42.220were today communists who wanted to use Mossadegh to overthrow the Pahlavi dynasty and then to take
00:13:48.920control over Iran and establish a republic. It is said that they were already planning to proclaim
00:13:55.060a republic on February 20, 1953, when they heard that the Shah had to go abroad on a medical trip
00:14:02.080but failed since the Iranians, fearing Mossadegh would overthrow the monarchy in the Shah's absence,
00:14:07.860organized demonstrations, demanding the Shah to stay. On that day, the Shah made the following
00:14:13.100remarks. Despite the fact that my illness has been forcing me to travel abroad for a long time,
00:14:18.640and despite the fact that I wanted to visit the Holy Shait in Iraq today and then travel to Europe
00:14:24.380for treatment, I decided to cancel because I see that you demand my presence here. I have no choice
00:14:30.400but to postpone my trip for the time being. Of course, like everyone else in this country,
00:14:34.920I have a duty to fulfill and accept the demands of the people.
00:14:39.460And if the people do not want me to travel and be treated, I will have to cancel this trip.
00:14:44.580Contrary to what is reported by the leftist media, we don't see here the image of a cruel despot,
00:14:51.440but the image of a dutiful king loved by his people.
00:14:55.180The leftist media who likes to call the Shah of Iran a puppet of the West
00:14:58.820should read the following CIA report on the Shah.
00:15:01.620The Shah has vivacity, imagination and wit tempered with a deep sense of personal dignity and almost mystical feeling of his mission and duty to Iran.
00:15:12.300The Shah identifies himself strongly with the Iranian army, considering himself a qualified strategist and tactician.
00:15:19.620Devoting a great deal of his private fortune on charities, his popularity is now much greater than at his accession.
00:15:26.700were he to make himself absolute dictator on the model of his father the iranian people would
00:15:32.460acquiesce but his attachment to democratic principles prevents such a step these are the
00:15:38.140cia's own words the cia would have to be very stupid to use such a patriotic man to exploit iran
00:15:45.820what many do not realize the shah did not oppose mossadek nationalization of the oil industry
00:15:53.260On the contrary, the Shah and Mossadegh were on the same page regarding this issue.
00:15:59.100The problem, however, was that even though the Shah had given Mossadegh every opportunity to develop a constructive oil policy,
00:16:08.580Mossadegh was unable to lead a constructive policy, sank into destructiveness, depression, and instead blamed the Shah for his failures.
00:16:17.720What a jerk! Even his own party members had begun to criticize him.
00:16:22.080Thereupon, Mossadegh made the parliament incurate by forbidding his supporters to participate.
00:16:28.940Whoever resisted was beaten up by his gangs.
00:16:31.720Due to the oil shortages and the resulting enormous economic problems caused by his populist economic policies,
00:16:39.720Mossadegh had several million dollars worth of money printed without sufficient gold backing, which caused high inflation.
00:20:00.780On the one hand, the US did not want to finance Mossadegh's insane policies.
00:20:06.000But on the other hand, they had to finance Mossadegh's regime
00:20:09.000so that Iran would not further drive into the hands of the communists.
00:20:12.520To solve this issue, the United States decided to support the anti-Mossadegh coalition in Iran,
00:20:17.580who had formed because of Mossadegh's ever-increasing despotic rule and disastrous economic policies.
00:20:23.420The solution was finally Operation TP-Ajax.
00:20:26.340The plan was to create a pro-Western government and at the same time to prevent the Tudor Party, which was under the control of the Soviet Union, from coming to power.
00:20:35.100And thus, the United States sent CIA agent Kermit Roosevelt to meet with resistance leader General Zahedi, a man who owned large estates and was considered a strict anti-communist.
00:20:46.000Zahedi was a man who had initially supported Mossadegh's national front, but had fallen out with Mossadegh because, unlike Mossadegh, he was against a cooperation with the communists.
00:20:57.320After his breakup with Mossadegh, Zahedi became a member of the Committee of the Salvation of the Fatherland, Komitee Nejate Vatan, also called Committee of 46,
00:21:06.500a resistant movement among Iranian officers and civilians who wanted to restore the constitutional monarchy and save Iran from a communist takeover.
00:21:14.440General Zahedi was a patriotic Iranian, very anti-British, who was in fact interned by the
00:21:21.460British after their troops occupied Iran during World War II. The objective of Operation TP-Ajax
00:21:28.080was to prevent Iran from falling behind the Iron Curtain and to stop the Tudor Party from taking
00:21:32.960power over Iran. TP-Ajax was supposed to be a quasi-legal coup, that is, the Americans would
00:21:38.120bribe 20 parliament members so they would join the rest of the anti-mossetic opposition in
00:21:42.840parliament and dismiss him. Simultaneously, the Shah would appoint Zahedi as chief of staff,
00:21:48.120then parliament would give a word of confidence to him so that the Shah appoints Zahedi as the
00:21:52.540new prime minister. And if parliament refuses to cooperate, the Shah should order the imperial
00:21:57.080guard to remove Mossadegh by force and then Zahedi would emerge victorious and accept the decree of
00:22:02.100prime minister. TPHX was supposed to be carried out on August 16th, three days before Mossadegh's
00:22:07.880actual removal by the Iranian people but failed because Mossadegh who had heard about the plan
00:22:13.760to dismiss him as prime minister launched a full-on military coup d'etat. TPHX however also
00:22:21.080failed to a large extent because the Shah refused to cooperate with the CIA. The Shah rejected all
00:22:29.280the plans and no part of the plan could get operationalized. The Shah argued that he would
00:22:35.420dismiss Mossadegh only if he did something illegal and that he would never go against the constitution
00:22:41.240he had sworn to keep. Mossadegh on the other hand violated the constitution on August 13th 1953 by
00:22:48.580dissolving the parliament through a silly show he called a referendum. Mossadegh's so-called
00:22:54.680referendum to abolish the parliament was held between August 3rd and August 10th. Mossadegh
00:23:00.060the great democrat for free elections ordered that those who were against him had to vote in
00:23:06.660specially marked polling booths the result was that 99 percent had voted for the dissolution
00:23:12.580of the parliament because the population was afraid of Mossadegh's terror squads who systematically
00:23:18.120murdered those who voted against Mossadegh it must also be said that many voters were basically
00:23:25.260illiterate peasants who didn't know what they were even voting for and therefore had no vote of their
00:23:30.940own thus musadak's referendum looked more like this general aladdin won 98.8 percent of the vote
00:23:39.820just to give you an idea how ridiculous this referendum was in some towns where the population
00:23:45.900was around 3 000 there was a turnout of 600 percent had the dead also worked here the
00:23:53.020The Shah, who condemned Tehdi's rig referendum, wrote in his memoirs,
00:23:56.540Mossadegh's bulldoze elections had cost hundreds of people their lives.
00:24:00.260Mossadegh wanted to make himself the absolute dictator
00:24:03.140and had nothing else in his mind but to overthrow me and my dynasty.
00:24:07.340Accordingly, the Shah instructed Colonel Naseri, commander of the Imperial Guard,
00:24:11.740to bring Mossadegh the certificate of impeachment
00:24:14.540and General Zahidi the order to form a new government.
00:24:17.940With the dissolution of parliament, Mossadegh had given the Shah
00:24:21.340the right to remove him and replace him with another prime minister.
00:24:25.400According to the constitution, the Shah had the right to dismiss the prime minister
00:24:29.040after the dissolution of parliament and to replace him with an interim prime minister
00:24:33.760until new parliamentary elections were held.
00:24:35.920So much for the Shah being an unconstitutional dictator.
00:24:39.000Ergo, the Shah made it clear to the CIA that he would only remove Mossadegh legally, which he did.
00:24:44.840Therefore, the CIA did not play a significant role in the legal removal of the illegal government of the unelected dictator Mossadegh.
00:24:54.360In the verbal report, we also see that even though the United States and Britain repeatedly threaten the Shah that if he does not cooperate with them, they will end his reign,
00:25:05.240The Shah categorically rejects all offers and says that if Mossadegh holds a referendum to resolve the parliament, I will dismiss Mossadegh legally.
00:25:16.600In a meeting with U.S. Ambassador in May 1953, the Shah states emphatically that first, if Zahedi is to become prime minister, it must be through legal means, no coup.
00:25:28.380Secondly, if the new government does not receive financial and economic assistance caused by Mossadegh's disastrous policies,
00:25:37.100I would prefer Mossadegh to remain prime minister.
00:25:40.040What we see in these documents about the events that led to August 19 is the sincerity from the Shah,
00:25:47.300who, despite all the threats of the great powers in his youth with dignity and courage,
00:25:54.240even at the cost of threatening his kingship and his life
00:26:24.200And therefore, not only did the CIA cease activities against Mossadegh,
00:26:28.640but they even decided to support him following their failed plan to remove him.
00:26:36.040With the appointment of General Zahedi as the new prime minister on August 13th,
00:26:41.120Mossadegh was officially deposed and had to resign.
00:26:44.060However, he refused and launched a military coup on August 16th,
00:26:48.140marking the beginning of his three-day dictatorship.
00:26:50.680A year prior, on October 23, 1952, Mossadegh had dissolved the Senate.
00:26:56.320That was an important step because the Senate was responsible for reviewing and approving laws.
00:27:01.680And on August 3, 1953, Mossadegh was given the authority to take over the judicial and executive branches,
00:27:08.420just as today these three branches in Iran are under the direct supervision of the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic.
00:27:16.040Mossadegh abolished the separation and independence of the three powers,
00:27:19.840enabling the National Front to eliminate any other alternative in Iran to its rule,
00:27:24.460except, of course, the Communist Studio Party.
00:27:27.040Mossadegh wanted to turn Iran into a Soviet-style republic.
00:27:30.340His goal was to replace the parliamentary monarchy in Iran with a republic and assume its presidency.
00:27:35.300In Egypt, for example, a republic had already been proclaimed on June 18, 1953,
00:27:40.580after King Farouk had been deposed through a coup d'etat by his own prime minister.
00:27:44.800Fearing a similar fate for Iran, most members of parliament turned against Mossadegh, including his closest allies.
00:27:52.120On August 13, 1953, Mossadegh, in collaboration with General Tahririyahi, drew up a detailed plan to overthrow the monarchy.
00:28:00.020Instead of accepting his dismissal order, Mossadegh should first declare that the army had revolted against him.
00:28:05.460Second, Mossadegh should order the arrest of senior officers of the army.
00:28:09.720Third, the imperial guard should be eliminated and the Shah should be put under house arrest.
00:28:14.120and then large demonstrations should be organized in tehran and the speakers of the national front
00:28:19.020the pan-iranists and the two the party should inform the people about the abolition of the
00:28:23.620monarchy and the establishment of a republic in iran at one o'clock in the morning on august
00:28:28.44016th 1953 the shah's decree which had removed masadegh from the post of prime minister was
00:28:34.160delivered to his house by colonel naseri and masadegh was notified but masadegh sent naseri
00:28:40.580to the army headquarters where he was to be arrested.
00:28:43.660Mossadegh, now a dismissed prime minister, accused the army of making a coup
00:28:48.080and thereupon ordered General Riyahi to arrest the accompanying officers of Colonel Nasseri.
00:28:54.180The Shah was called a dictator and General Riyahi was ordered to disband the Imperial Guard,
00:28:59.180arresting their officers and sending them to West Tehran to be dispersed among their brigades and divisions.
00:29:04.280Mossadegh also ordered the arrest and imprisonment of many high-ranking government
00:29:09.340and military officials without a warrant and so the decree of Mossadegh's dismissal became the
00:29:15.460basis of the leftist propaganda from that moment until today. Now imagine Mossadegh whose request
00:29:21.900of emergency powers were not accepted by the parliament but was appointed prime minister
00:29:27.240nonetheless by the Shah is being portrayed as the only democratically elected prime minister
00:29:33.400iran ever had while the shah who always adhered to the constitution is constantly called a brutal
00:29:40.760dictator by the leftist media how crazy is that yes mossad who established an absolute dictatorship
00:29:50.200in iran is advertised by the leftist media to the entire world as a model for the struggle
00:29:56.680for democracy a man who built iran's first secret police as well as many prisons to detain his
00:30:03.240political opponents has been branded by the leftist media as a fighter for political freedom.
00:30:08.700On August 16th, several army officers were arrested and a bounty of 100,000 rials was
00:30:14.900set on the head of the Shah's appointed prime minister, General Zahedi, which was a lot of
00:30:20.140money back then in Iran. Adjusting inflation, with this sum you could have bought a 71 Mercedes in
00:30:26.0601972. Mossadegh's first decision as dictator of Iran was to take command of the army, something
00:30:32.700that only the Shah was authorized to do under the constitution. Again, very democratic. At 6am on
00:30:39.800August 16, Mossadegh called the first cabinet of the so-called Mossadegh government to a meeting at
00:30:45.960his home to decide what this government would be like. A radio statement was broadcasted at 7am
00:30:51.600which stated that Mossadegh had assumed all the duties that were designated for the Shah in the
00:30:57.420constitution and declared that the constitution was invalid and ordered the removal of the name
00:31:03.240shah throughout iran to legitimize his illegal government at seven o'clock in the morning
00:31:09.280mossadeh ordered bashir farah mand the head of the general directorate of propaganda to read
00:31:15.560the government announcement twice that the coup had taken place by the army at one o'clock in the
00:31:20.600morning and on august 16th but that the coup was foiled at four o'clock in the morning then mossadeh
00:31:26.420ordered the seizure of the imperial palaces and then to arrest the Shah.
00:31:30.520What Mossadegh, however, did not suspect was that the Shah, who was outside Tehran, had left the country.
00:31:36.140The Shah, seeing Mossadegh refusing to step down and seeing him systematically arresting political opponents,
00:31:42.280immediately realized Mossadegh was doing a coup d'etat and decided to leave Iran in the early morning of August 16.
00:31:48.620In a statement, he declared that since he has sworn an oath to be the guardian of the constitution and of the law,
00:31:54.340And since he has noticed Mossadegh violating the constitution and that he wants to seize total power for himself, he decided to dismiss him.
00:32:04.680And seeing Mossadegh disobeying his orders, he decided to leave Iran temporarily to avoid a civil war and unnecessary bloodshed.
00:32:11.760I ask you, are these really the actions of a power-hungry dictator?
00:32:17.860Would a tyrant voluntarily leave the country to give the people the choice to freely decide who they want to follow?
00:32:24.380To arrest the Shah, Foreign Minister Hossein Fatemi sent a telegram to the Iranian ambassador in Baghdad.
00:32:30.500Embassy contact with those who fled the morning after the failed military coup without informing the government is not permitted in any way.
00:32:37.460At the Mossadegh government's cabinet meeting, it was decided that on the evening of August 16th,
00:32:42.900demonstrations by the Tudor Party, the National Front, the Iran Party, the Third Force,
00:32:48.020and the Pan-Iranists would take place in Bahriristan Square.
00:32:51.160They would announce the establishment of the so-called new government of Mossadegh
00:32:54.820and with it the abolition of the parliamentary monarchy.
00:32:57.820And so, an hour after noon, the Tudor Party, the National Front, and the Pan-Iranists
00:33:02.920marched through the streets of Tehran towards Bajoristan Square with red flags and hammers,
00:33:08.440chanting communist slogans to declare the establishment of a socialist republic under Mossadegh.
00:33:13.400The people of the capital trembled with fear and saw with their own eyes that the Soviet Union was literally seizing power in Iran.
00:33:21.820In the meantime, the Shah arrived in Baghdad airport and was well received by the Iraqi authorities,
00:33:26.940acknowledging him as Iran's head of state, despite Hossein Fatemi's propaganda.
00:33:31.700The Shah's departure, however, encouraged the communists to the party to stage demonstrations in Tehran,
00:33:37.740chanting the slogan, the Democratic Republic shall rise.
00:33:41.640During these pro-Mosedaq demonstrations, communist gangs, along with thugs and rioters,
00:33:46.640dispersed in the streets of Tehran and attacked people with stones and sticks, while looting shops and stores.
00:33:53.260And so the people's fear and concerns about the Soviet-backed Tudorhi militants dominating the affairs of the country was growing.
00:34:00.180In Baghdad, the Shah told the Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament that he hopes to return to Iran soon and that he has appointed General Zahidi as Prime Minister because Mossadegh was abusing his authority and that General Zahidi did not stage a coup but that he merely informed Mossadegh of my order for his dismissal.
00:34:19.260The socialist forces of Mossadegh now had gathered at Baharistan Square and as tapes of the demonstrations show, Fatemi declared the abolition of the monarchy and announced the establishment of the People's Democratic Republic.
00:34:31.120We do not want a king, all the speakers said with the utmost ruthlessness and impudence, followed by a handful of traitors and ignorant people shouting, complete the task of the country.
00:34:42.280The demonstrations began with a speech by Jalalim Mousavi, a former member of the parliament.
00:34:46.680then Hussein Fatemi came behind the microphone and gave a speech as the tapes show which were
00:34:52.060later broadcasted in the trial of Mossadegh and General Riahi Fatemi called the end of Iran's
00:34:57.620constitution and its parliamentary monarchy and declared the establishment of the Democratic
00:35:02.040Republic of Iran and at the same time Mossadegh's followers tore down the statue of Reza Shah in
00:35:08.880Bahorestan Square with a crane and then dragged down the remaining statues of the Pahlavi kings
00:35:14.480in Tehran. Mossadegh personally ordered his followers to tear down the statues. This was
00:35:20.420Mossadegh's message to the Iranian nation that there was no place for a Shah in his so-called
00:35:25.800Mossadegh government. You must realize that most things that happened on the orders of Mossadegh
00:35:31.360in this three-day period from August 16 to August 19 were not spontaneous decisions but they were
00:35:38.320Rather, based on a detailed plan, as Mossadegh and his accomplices confessed later in Kurd.
00:35:44.860Abdul Qasem Amini, the guardsman of the royal Kurd, was Mossadegh's cousin and simultaneously his spy,
00:35:51.020and he had informed Mossadegh in advance of the Shah's decision to dismiss him,
00:35:56.420therefore not making Mossadegh's violent seizure of power a mere reaction towards some attempted coup by the imperial guard,
00:36:05.700To U.S. Ambassador Henderson, Mossadegh even told that while he doubted the authenticity of the royal decree dismissing him, it would not have mattered to him anyway, since he did not care about the Shah's opinion, which implies that Mossadegh was going to make a coup regardless of his legal dismissal.
00:36:24.400Mossadegh, however, had misjudged the situation.
00:36:27.760The people were not at all enthusiastic about the parade.
00:36:31.340They did not cheer the Marxist socialist takeover, but were horrified.
00:36:35.820When they saw Mossadegh's communist supporters tearing down the statues of their king
00:36:40.240and defacing the statues of the father of the Iranian nation, Raisa Shah,
00:36:44.620they knew full well what Mossadegh was intended to achieve.
00:36:48.140And so, on August 19th, 1953, at 6 a.m., people took to their streets.
00:36:54.400and the uprising of the Iranians against Mossadegh's government began.
00:37:01.600It is ironic that the very idea to establish a republic in Iran was first considered by
00:37:07.840then Prime Minister and later King Reza Pahlavi. But the parliament and the Iranian people opposed
00:37:13.920this idea, arguing that Iran needs a Shah and that this is the culture and tradition of Iran.
00:37:19.840and this attitude did not change with mosaddegh the iranians loving their king opposed mosaddegh
00:37:28.000and when mosaddegh called the army to restore order the army instead ousted him mosaddegh supporters
00:37:34.640often claimed that thousands of iranians were bribed by foreigners to demonstrate against
00:37:39.680mosaddegh but when we look at eyewitness accounts we quickly find out the opposite
00:37:45.920sha'ban ja'fari often known as sha'ban the brainless was an infamous street thug in tehran
00:37:53.120during the national uprising against masada he was often regarded as a leader of street fights
00:37:57.920for the shah in an interview he stated that he did not receive any bribes but that he had
00:38:04.320revolted against masada because he loved the shah as we can see in this interview
00:38:15.920and so from six o'clock in the morning of august 19 groups of people took to the streets and the
00:38:40.800uprising of the people in the capital against the mossadach government began all straighter of the
00:38:46.480population participated in the uprising workers artisans peasants students but also soldiers and
00:38:52.960policemen the imperial guard and women in a fever of patriotism people occupied the radio station
00:38:59.600and then took strategically important centers and government offices one government institution
00:39:06.080after another was taken over by the people and when the radio office was occupied by the people
00:39:11.520the victory of the people was announced by playing the royal anthem and the voices of
00:39:16.120mirash rafi and pera step the people's representatives in the parliament were heard
00:39:21.220on the radio the message was clear the representatives of the iranian people
00:39:26.060were behind the shah and the legal prime minister zahidi mosaddegh's interior minister dr sadi
00:39:32.780went to Mossadegh's house on Wednesday morning, August 19th, at about 7 a.m. Mossadegh told
00:39:38.740Sadiri that since the Shah had left the country, a royal council should be formed through a
00:39:43.540plebiscite. Sadiri replied, relayed this to the ministers who informed him that people in
00:39:50.240Separske were shouting slogans such as Long live the Shah, Death to the Tudor Party and
00:39:56.220save the monarchy, demanding the Shah to return.
00:40:01.140General Riyahi told Sadiri by telephone that Mossadegh had expressed a desire to hand over
00:40:06.160the post of police chief and milchi governor to his nephew and son-in-law, General Muhammad
00:40:11.420Daftari, for fear that the police forces would join the people.
00:40:16.440Sadiri was again informed that hundreds of people were demonstrating against Mossadegh
00:40:20.800and his government in several places in the city with the participation of officers and soldiers.
00:40:28.040The entire nation had revolted against Mossadegh and they were shouting,
00:43:30.000The Shah who leaves the country to avoid a civil war
00:43:32.600or Mossadegh who shoots at his own people to secure his power?
00:43:36.400After the uprising of the people of Tehran, other residents joined the uprising and so the residents of the cities of Rasht, Esfahan, Kermanshah, Shiraz, Ahwaz also declared their loyalty to the monarchy and their willingness to martyr them.
00:43:52.080After 12 hours of bloody clashes between the people in Tehran and the Mossadegh government, all ministries and government offices, military centers and barracks finally fell into the hands of the people and Mossadegh's home was finally stormed.
00:44:06.040Mossadegh, who had not accepted the people's resistance,
00:44:10.040jumped from the wall of his house into a neighbor's house and fled,
00:44:13.620but was arrested and imprisoned after spending several days in hiding.
00:44:17.480Very fit for a person who seems to be sick and keeps fainting in front of the camera, isn't it?
00:44:36.040Forget about it, and I bought my father and my father, to present the
00:45:00.760man was deaf and alone, I had someone because it left me without saying anything
00:45:08.440another time we have collected a piece of just about you, Pallomen in that place
00:45:13.960M unlike the остр, he said that you cannot cover your quality
00:45:18.480Pallomen in aquilo, just give your generalosure, your sore shoulder, is five times