How oil corporations influenced US President Eisenhower and CIA coup in Iran

from Geopolitical Economy Report · host Ben Norton

Historian Aaron Good explains how the Western Big Oil corporations that dominated the global crude industry, known as the "Seven Sisters," had significant influence in the government of US President Dwight Eisenhower and inspired the CIA's first ever coup, the 1953 putsch against Iran's elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kv9n4q7IM64 This is PART 14 of the Empire and the Deep State series Multipolarista editor Ben Norton is co-hosting with Aaron Good and producer Seamus McGuinness of the American Exception podcast. PLAYLIST with past episodes in the series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL You can support American Exception at https://patreon.com/americanexception

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