On April 24, 1953, Mahmoud Afshartous, Iranian general, chief of police, and right hand man of the prime minister, is invited to the home of a member of the social democratic party. As he approaches, he announces that the building is surrounded and that everyone inside is under arrest for treason. He had received a tip that the social democrats were collaborating with foreign intelligence and that they were luring him there with the intent to abduct him, probably to torture him to death and leave his body in the streets to get him out of the way and destabilize the government or something like that. A firefight ensues, and searching the building provides Afshartous with more intelligence, leading him to launch an immediate raid on the hotel room of one Kermit Roosevelt, which leads to his arrest and the uncovering of incontrovertible proof that the Americans are plotting to overthrow the government and install the shah as an absolute ruler, through the newly formed Central Intelligence Agency.
This provokes a major international scandal. President Eisenhower denies all foreknowledge of the plot and blames the CIA, leading to the dismissal of Allen Dulles. He proceeds to declassify certain documents related to the plot - documents that also implicate MI6, damaging relations with the UK (along with screwing up and abandoning the plot in the first place). Attempting to please everyone, he ends up pleasing no one.
Prime Minister Mossadegh is outraged, and is convinced to shut down the American embassy and to pursue an alliance with the USSR. Iran’s Marxist-Leninist party, Tudeh, rises in popularity, but only comes to power after Mossadegh steps down.
Tensions between Western powers and increased anti-colonial sentiment result in Korea being unified under the DPRK.
People all around the world become more cautious of US-backed regime change, but with the failure of the “proof of concept” coup in Iran, the US becomes much more hesitant to deploy such strategies. But the red scare is still a thing, with the events in Iran and Korea kicking it into high gear. But the US approach is much more overt and mask-off.
On April 24, 1953, Mahmoud Afshartous, Iranian general, chief of police, and right hand man of the prime minister, is invited to the home of a member of the social democratic party. As he approaches, he announces that the building is surrounded and that everyone inside is under arrest for treason. He had received a tip that the social democrats were collaborating with foreign intelligence and that they were luring him there with the intent to abduct him, probably to torture him to death and leave his body in the streets to get him out of the way and destabilize the government or something like that. A firefight ensues, and searching the building provides Afshartous with more intelligence, leading him to launch an immediate raid on the hotel room of one Kermit Roosevelt, which leads to his arrest and the uncovering of incontrovertible proof that the Americans are plotting to overthrow the government and install the shah as an absolute ruler, through the newly formed Central Intelligence Agency.
This provokes a major international scandal. President Eisenhower denies all foreknowledge of the plot and blames the CIA, leading to the dismissal of Allen Dulles. He proceeds to declassify certain documents related to the plot - documents that also implicate MI6, damaging relations with the UK (along with screwing up and abandoning the plot in the first place). Attempting to please everyone, he ends up pleasing no one.
Prime Minister Mossadegh is outraged, and is convinced to shut down the American embassy and to pursue an alliance with the USSR. Iran’s Marxist-Leninist party, Tudeh, rises in popularity, but only comes to power after Mossadegh steps down.
Tensions between Western powers and increased anti-colonial sentiment result in Korea being unified under the DPRK.
People all around the world become more cautious of US-backed regime change, but with the failure of the “proof of concept” coup in Iran, the US becomes much more hesitant to deploy such strategies. But the red scare is still a thing, with the events in Iran and Korea kicking it into high gear. But the US approach is much more overt and mask-off.
That’s all I got, so far.