It is essential to say that the book depicts the history of foreign involvement in Iran that were the culmination in the toppling of Mossadegh Mohammad and the re-coronation of Reza Shah as Iran’s leader. Also, in All the Shah’s Men the author records another coup, the one that was before Guatemala and set the foundation for America’s view thinking that coup may be a necessary and essential instrument of foreign policy. It is necessary to add that he has contributed to the writing of the history of the CIA coup in Guatemala in the year 1954. The writer Stephen Kinzer is being a veteran reporter for the paper New York Times, and is being acquainted with American coups. Besides, it is also not possible to uncast a doubt on the novel’s main conclusion – that the American-led coup in Iran in the year 1953 stands at the ground of Middle East terror. He seemed even did not develop a sense of distaste first at the British, and then at their accomplices, the Americans. It seems that the author Stephen Kinzer has special affection towards their leader. One may feel sympathy for the Iranians and their leader, Mossadegh Mohammad, while reading this book. It discusses the 1953 CIA-engineered coup in which Iran’s prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh was won by American and British people and royalists loyal to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The book All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror is written by the American journalist Stephen Kinzer.
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