67th anniversary of the CIA/MI6 coup in #Iran approaches: Mossadegh was naive, he believed in democracy & presumed the US did too. Without this coup, we might have had a thriving democracy in the heart of the Muslim Mideast all these years. How different the world would now look! https://t.co/hL6illiKH1

— Stephen Kinzer (@stephenkinzer) August 9, 2020