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I'm currently reading Sephen Kinzer's 2003 book "All The Shah's Men: An American Coup And The Roots Of Middle East Terror". Kinzer is a NYT journalist and the book is a vivid account of the first US organized, coup d'etat of a Democratically elected leader of a sovereign nation. This is the story of the 1951 overthrow of the government of Iran. The CIA deposed Iran Prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh to prevent the nationalization of his country's massive reserves of oil. In his place, the US restored Mohammad Reza Shah to power whose tyrannical reign was the precursor to the 1979 Islamic Revolution.