US media ignored the 1953 CIA overthrow of Mossadegh.
Evidence
The one subject newspapers and television programs had looked into only superficially for the first three months of the embassy takeover was the previous Iranian regime: for a remarkably long time it was not popular to take seriously current Iranian grievances against both the deposed monarch and a longstanding United States policy to support him without reservation. Somehow, too, the violation of Iranian sovereignty that occurred in August 1953, when (as Kermit Roosevelt details in his recent and precipitately withdrawn book, Countercoup) the CIA in conjunction with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company overthrew Mohammed Mossadegh, merited little investigation, the assumption being that the United States as a great power is entitled to change governments and forgive tyranny when it is inflicted on illiterate nonwhites at our discretion. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 277
Categorization
- XREF: The 1953 coup context connects to broader knowledge of US covert intervention history and its long-tail consequences.
Related
- The CIA overthrew Iran’s elected leader for nationalizing oil (similarity 0.79)
- US media applied act-of-war labels asymmetrically to Iran. (similarity 0.78)