August 21, 1953: A resident of Tehran wash “Yanki Go Home” from a wall in Iran, the capital of Iran. The new Prime Minister Fazlullah Zahedi requested the cleanliness after overthrowing his predecessor.
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August 21, 1953: A resident of Tehran wash “Yanki Go Home” from a wall in Iran, the capital of Iran. The new Prime Minister Fazlullah Zahedi requested the cleanliness after overthrowing his predecessor.
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America and Iran have had a stressful relationship for decades – but when did it begin? This week, we offer our first episode about a program from August 1953 – when the CIA helped the Prime Minister of Iran to overthrow.
This episode has originally gone as Four days in August,
If you want to read more on the coup of 1953, then there is a list here:
