Stephen Kinzer

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
The CIA’s 1953 overthrow against Iranian leader Mohammad Mossadegh ushered in the long and brutal dictatorship of Mohammah Reza Shah. In All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, Stephen Kinzer explains why the coup was ultimately a disaster for U.S. interests in the Middle East.
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