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Coup 53

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Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed tyrant Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, have conspired with agents of the British MI6 and the US CIA, manage to put an end to the democratic government led by Mohammad Mosaddegh, a dramatic event that will begin the tragic era of coups d'état that, orchestrated by the CIA, will take place, over the following decades, in dozens of countries around the world.

Date: 09/01/2019

Rating: 7.6

Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Taghi Amirani, Farhad Diba, Malcolm Byrne, Stephen Kinzer, Walter Murch, Ervand Abrahamian, Alison Rooper, David Owen, Mark Anderson, Humphry Trevelyan, Chris Morphet, Rameza Mahsani, Adbolzahra Baghlani, Ghobad Fakhimi, Nigel Hawkes, Stephen Dorril, Hamid Ahmadi, Mousa Mehran, Ardeshir Zahedi, David Talbot, Siavush Randjbar-Daemi, Ahmad Djalili, Haj Habib, Abdolmajid Bayat, Esmail Yazdi, Andrew Goddard, Kane Morrell, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Winston Churchill, Richard Nixon, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Julian Amery, Kermit Roosevelt, Bernie Sanders, Frank Reynolds, Peter Ramsbotham, Donald Logan, Henry Grady, Sam Falle, Stephen Meade, Nasrollah Fatemi, Peter Avery, Eric Drake, Fouad Rouhani, Frank Soskice, Harry S. Truman, Basil Jackson, Joe Addison, Shapour Bakhtiar, Abolhassan Banisadr, Fazlollah Zahedi, George Middleton, George McGhee, Joseph McCarthy, John Foster Dulles, Richard Cottam, Fereydoun Azarnour, Princess Ashraf Pahlavi of Iran, Mehdi Homayouni, Abol-Ghasem Kashani, Alireza Saheb, Nematollah Nassiri, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari, Amir Pishdad, Abbas Aghelizadeh, Efraim Halevy, Jacobo Árbenz, Jimmy Carter, Ruhollah Khomeini, Donald Trump

Ralph Fiennes