George Monbiot Says 1953 U.S.–UK Coup in Iran Shaped Today’s Conflict Outcomes
March 22, 2026
George Monbiot just reminded the world that the current firestorm in Iran didn’t start yesterday. We are living with the consequences of the 1953 coup where the UK and US destroyed Iranian democracy for oil and power.
By overthowing Mossadegh they planted the seeds of every escalation we see now. The Epstein Class in Washington and their Zionist partners are still running the same colonial playbook. They ignite the fuse then act shocked when the region explodes.
From the 1953 coup to the missiles falling today the objective has never changed: total control. They broke Iran once and now they are trying to finish the job while the world pays the price in blood.
THEY REAP THE PROFITS WHILE WE BLEED FROM THEIR CENTURY OF CRIMES.
Source: @novaramedia
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English Script:
George Monbiot: Trump says he’s no Winston Churchill. Well, in this respect, I’m very happy that he’s no Winston Churchill because Winston Churchill did intervene in Iran and we are living with the consequences of that today. So Churchill and his counterparts in the U.S. launched a coup against the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mohammed Mossadegh, in 1953, because he was nationalizing the oil industry. He said, this oil belongs to Iran. It shouldn’t be all captured by the Anglo Iranian Oil Company and siphoned out of our country and the wealth taken away from us, a perfectly reasonable position. But Churchill wasn’t having any of that. He prompted the US, in particular the CIA, to launch a coup. Overthrew Mossadegh, who was a highly popular leader. He was revered by his people to an extent that very few of us ever are. And installed instead, reinstalled the Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, with his brutal cruel regime. And when that regime was overthrown in the Iranian revolution in 1979, one of the main reasons that people gave for that new revolution was the overthrow of Mossadegh in 1953. So we are now living, or rather, the Iranians are now living with this brutal and horrible Ayatollah regime, which was instituted in response to what the British and the Americans did before. This is what’s called imperial blowback. And we think we’re being so clever and so brilliant in wading in to countries about which our governments often seem to know very little, plunging in and, firing missiles and staging coups and all the rest of it. But we don’t think of those long term outcomes, those long term consequences and the absolutely catastrophic effects that they can have many decades down the line.
