🕵️ The First Oil Nationalization In History Was Crushed By The CIA In Three Weeks

Added: 2026-04-29

[00:00:00]In 1951, Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh did what no leader in the entire developing world had ever dared before him. He nationalized the entire British oil company, the first time in modern history a third world country reclaimed its own oil fields from a Western firm. In August 1953, the CIA and British intelligence executed a covert operation called Ajax, overthrowing Mosaddegh in 3 weeks. That single covert regime change permanently altered the relationship between Iran and the entire Western world, and the complete story is on the channel.