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This is completely wrong and is historical revisionism. Obama ex-adviser himself wrote a book after he read the classified CIA files and he says in his book that it was completely a coup led by the CIA and the MI6. There is a lot more on the book and I recommend people who can get it to read it.

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The plan would consist in bribing journalists,

editors, Islamic preachers, and opinion leaders to undermine

the government and fan the flames of distrust. Stories

would be planted “to show Mosaddeq as a Communist

collaborator and as a fanatic,” and thugs would be hired to

organize protests and create chaos and instability on the

streets.

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> The shah would fire Mosaddeq, who was bound to

resist, creating a pretext for his arrest, his ouster, and the

restoration of the shah’s unquestioned rule.

On July 19, Roosevelt arrived in Iran and began to

implement the plan, paying agents to spread chaos on the

streets of Tehran and bribing members of parliament to

abandon the government.

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>The cautious, young shah—aware

of Mosaddeq’s popularity—was reluctant to approve the

action, but he was eventually brought on board, mostly due

to threats from Roosevelt but also in part by his sister

Ashraf, who was enlisted by the CIA to help persuade him.

Still dealing with the British-led global oil boycott, Mosaddeq

begged for assistance from the United States, but

Eisenhower declined to help, by then convinced that the

only hope was to squeeze Iran financially to prepare the

ground for the coup.

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So no it's not a conspiracy theory of islamists, it is in the historical record and the US government itself doesn't deny it/