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00:00We meet at a time of great tension between the United States and Muslims around the world.

00:19And there is, in fact, a tumultuous history between us.

00:22In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a

00:26democratically elected Iranian government.

00:29This history is well known.

00:30I have never heard anything about the CIA, especially in 1953.

00:35I have no clue.

00:38Can you repeat that?

00:41We in the United States have short memories people in the Middle East never forget.

00:45Time magazine made Mohammad Mosaddegh its man of the year.

00:49And they were right.

00:51He was the most important person in the world.

00:54And he did what a lot of Iranians strongly agreed with, make sure that Iran would keep

00:59the revenues of its own oil.

01:01There had never been a figure from a poor country who had risen up to challenge the masters of

01:07the universe.

01:08Harry Truman, I think, says, I'm not having any of this.

01:11This is imperialism.

01:12This is colonialism.

01:13Churchill asked President Truman, can you overthrow this madman?

01:17Truman says, Winston Churchill, you can go to hell.

01:20Ike for president.

01:21Ike for president.

01:22You like Ike.

01:23I like Ike.

01:24Everybody likes Ike.

01:25And then the straw that breaks the camel's back is the Soviets are coming.

01:30The Soviets are coming.

01:31Where have we heard this before?

01:32The Eisenhower administration selected Kermit Roosevelt to carry out the coup.

01:36He's very well educated.

01:37My God, he's a Roosevelt.

01:38And he wants to serve his country, but he wants to do it in a secretive way.

01:43They never had any idea that there was such a person as Kermit Roosevelt.

01:48I was horrified by the bloodletting in the streets.

01:55300 people died in that couple of hours.

01:59The 53 coup is like a guillotine in Iran.

02:03It inorganized for a massive repression.

02:06The average American doesn't have the vaguest idea that we interfered with an elected government.

02:12If you show just a little bit of imagination, I think we'd feel pretty upset about that.

02:17And we would probably harbor that grudge for a generation or five.

02:23I met Kermit Roosevelt after the coup.

02:26Do you really think now that was a good idea?

02:29I can hardly wrap my mind around how different the Middle East might look today.

American Coup | movie | 2010 | Official Trailer

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