In his most recent work, The Coup: 1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern
U. S.-Iranian Relations, Ervand Abrahamian (Distinguished Professor of Iranian
and Middle Eastern History, Baruch College of the City University, New
York) recounts a definitive moment of modern Iranian history that overshadows
Iranian-American relations to this day. Drawing on a remarkable variety
of sources – accessible Iranian official documents, the Foreign Office and
State Department files, memoirs and biographies, newspaper articles published
during the crisis, recent Persian-language books published in Iran, a
CIA report leaked in 2000 known as “the Wilber document,” and two contemporary
oral history projects (the Iranian Oral History Project at Harvard
University and the Iranian Left history project in Berlin) – the author provides
a detailed and thorough account of the 1953 coup.
Source: American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences