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1953 Iranian coup d'état
Part of the Abadan Crisis, and the Cold War
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Coup supporters celebrate victory in Tehran
Date 15–19 August 1953
Location Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
Result Overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh
Combatants
Template:Flagicon image Government of Iran Template:Flagdeco House of Pahlavi
Template:Flagdeco United StatesTemplate:Efn
Template:Flagdeco United KingdomTemplate:Efn
Commanders
Template:Flagicon image Mohammad MosaddeghTemplate:Surrendered
Template:Flagicon image Gholam Hossein SadighiTemplate:POW
Template:Flagicon image Hossein FatemiTemplate:Executed
Template:Flagicon image Taghi RiahiTemplate:POW
Template:Flagdeco Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Template:Flagdeco Fazlollah Zahedi
Template:Flagdeco Nematollah NassiriTemplate:POW
Template:Flagdeco Shaban Jafari
Template:Flagdeco Assadollah Rashidian
Template:Flagdeco Dwight Eisenhower
Template:Flagdeco Allen Dulles
Template:Flagdeco Kermit Roosevelt Jr.
Template:Flagdeco Winston Churchill
Template:Flagdeco Anthony Eden
Template:Flagdeco John Sinclair
Casualties
200–300 killed
  1. Parsa, Misagh (1989). Social origins of the Iranian revolution. Rutgers University Press.
  2. (2007) Islam in the European Union: Transnationalism, Youth and the War on Terrors. Oxford University Press.