Patriot of Persia

On 19 August 1953 the British and American intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup against a cussed, bedridden 72-year-old. His name was Muhammad Mossadegh, the Iranian prime minister. To Winston Churchill he was a lunatic, determined to humiliate Britain. To President Eisenhower he was delivering Iran to the Soviets. Mossadegh must go.

Bertrams Buyer's Notes:
A biography of Muhammed Mossadegh, one of the great political eccentrics of modern times. One of the first liberals of the Middle East, he was deposed as Iranian Prime Minister in 1953 by the British and Americans, a move which those countries deeply regretted in time.