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The 28 of Mordad Controversy: A Reply

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Darioush Bayandor*
Affiliation:
United Nations official and lecturer in several

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The 28 of Mordad Controversy: Reply and Rejoinder
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Copyright © The International Society for Iranian Studies 2013

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References

1 Vol.45, No.5.

2 Rahnema, A., “Overthrowing Mosaddeq in Iran: 28 Mordad/19 August 1953,Iranian Studies 45 (2012): 661668CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Azimi, F., “The Overthrow of the Government of Mosaddeq Reconsidered,Iranian Studies 45 (2012): 693712.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Azimi refers by name to Nasrollah Bayandor, a cousin of my father and one of the four brigadiers indicted for the abduction and murder of General Afshartus, whom I had seen once at the age of seven.

4 For one among several examples see para. 4 on p.175 and 691 in my Journal piece.

5 General Smith was Eisenhower's chief of staff during the Normandy invasion; after the war he served as US ambassador to Moscow, then head of the CIA in the Truman administration. Eisenhower appointed him to the number two slot in the State Department where he was one of the main architects of the TP-Ajax.

6 Referenced in my book, p. 133 n. 62.

7 Dar tir'rass'e havades; zendegui'e siasi'e Qavam al-Saltaneh (Tehran: Akhtaran, 1385/2006), chapter 5, pp. 153–82.Google Scholar

8 Presentation at Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, 28 November 2006, by Jamil Hasanli (based on USSR archives); Hasanli is the author of At the Dawn of the Cold War: The Soviet–American Crisis over Iranian Azerbaijan (English trans., Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006),

9 See archive references of Qavam's lobbying, inter alia, with British conservative MP Julian Amery, February 1952, cited from Gasiorowski, Louis, and others in my book (p. 67, n. 70–71).

10 Allen to Secretary of State, 2 November 1946, FRUS: 1946–47, 541–42.

11 http://www.jminews.com/news/fa/?mi=15&ni=4036; curiously in his Journal piece, while taxing me with sloppiness, Azimi mistakes the words for .

12 One interesting example is what he attributes to Mosaddeq in his book Crisis of Democracy, p. 221; compare the passage with the actual text of Mosaddeq's speech, Mozakerat, 27 session, 16th Majles, 4 Khordad 1329/25 May 1950 and you will be surprised.

13 See the archival evidence cited in chapters 5 and 6, pp. 110–40.

14 Niruha'ye mazhabi bar bastar'e harakat'e nehzat'e melli (Tehran: Gam-no, 2005).Google Scholar