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American Coup | movie | 2010 | Official Trailer
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6/22/2025
AMERICAN COUP tells the story of the first coup ever carried out by the CIA - Iran, 1953. Explores the blowback from thi | dG1fdVc5VzhzakFmdkk
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We meet at a time of great tension between the United States and Muslims around the world.
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And there is, in fact, a tumultuous history between us.
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In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a
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democratically elected Iranian government.
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This history is well known.
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I have never heard anything about the CIA, especially in 1953.
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I have no clue.
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Can you repeat that?
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We in the United States have short memories people in the Middle East never forget.
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Time magazine made Mohammad Mosaddegh its man of the year.
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And they were right.
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He was the most important person in the world.
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And he did what a lot of Iranians strongly agreed with, make sure that Iran would keep
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the revenues of its own oil.
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There had never been a figure from a poor country who had risen up to challenge the masters of
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the universe.
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Harry Truman, I think, says, I'm not having any of this.
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This is imperialism.
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This is colonialism.
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Churchill asked President Truman, can you overthrow this madman?
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Truman says, Winston Churchill, you can go to hell.
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Ike for president.
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Ike for president.
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You like Ike.
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I like Ike.
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Everybody likes Ike.
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And then the straw that breaks the camel's back is the Soviets are coming.
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The Soviets are coming.
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Where have we heard this before?
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The Eisenhower administration selected Kermit Roosevelt to carry out the coup.
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He's very well educated.
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My God, he's a Roosevelt.
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And he wants to serve his country, but he wants to do it in a secretive way.
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They never had any idea that there was such a person as Kermit Roosevelt.
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I was horrified by the bloodletting in the streets.
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300 people died in that couple of hours.
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The 53 coup is like a guillotine in Iran.
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It inorganized for a massive repression.
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The average American doesn't have the vaguest idea that we interfered with an elected government.
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If you show just a little bit of imagination, I think we'd feel pretty upset about that.
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And we would probably harbor that grudge for a generation or five.
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I met Kermit Roosevelt after the coup.
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Do you really think now that was a good idea?
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I can hardly wrap my mind around how different the Middle East might look today.
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