Oil crisis in Iran : from nationalism to coup d'etat / Ervand Abrahamian, City University of New York.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abrahamian, Ervand, 1940- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petroleum industry and trade--Iran.

Petroleum industry and trade.

Petroleum--Political aspects.

Petroleum.

Iran.

Petroleum--Political aspects--Iran.

Iran--Foreign relations--United States.

International relations.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--Iran.

Physical Description:

xvii, 195 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Introduction "History is about arguments."-Christopher Hill The new edition of the declassified documents throws invaluable light on how deeply the US was involved in the internal politics of Iran from the very beginning of the oil crisis-an involvement previously overlooked by both historians and informed observers. A cursory comparison between the 2017 version of Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952-54, Vol. X, Iran, 1951-54 with the 1989 version with the same title indicates that these documents were withheld so long precisely because the State Department was reluctance to admit to such deep involvement. The 2017 version reveals that the 1989 version had "redacted"-euphemism for deleted and censored-the following two short, but significant, phrases from a long 1951 National Security Council document: US "conduct special political operations" in Iran; and US "coordinated US-UK support for pro-Western Iranian elements"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. US Involvement

2. US Concerns: Oil or Communism?

3. Parliamentary Politics

4. The Road to the Coup

5. Memory Revised.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Abrahamian, Ervand, 1940- Oil crisis in Iran

ISBN:

9781108837491

1108837492

OCLC:

1224160178

Publisher Number:

99988467131