The correct answer is D) CIA engineer a coup that brought the Shah of Iran to power.
Between 1945-1959, the United States policy in the Middle East saw the
CIA engineer a coup that brought the Shah of Iran to power.
In 1979, the overthrow of Shah Pahlavi in Iran resulted in an Islamic theocracy.
In response to a supposed Soviet threat to Middle Eastern oil, the US Central Intelligence Agency in 1953 staged a coup to overthrow the Iranian government and install Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi as a dictator.
We are talking about the CIA's plan to remove Mohammad Mosadeggh from the government and put Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi in his place as the new ruler of Iran. This happened in August 1953. The CIA worked closely with Great Britain intelligence in an operation called "Ajax." The United States helped finance the operation because, in those years of the Cold War, Iran had proven to be an important ally of the US in the Middle East region.
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The Hammurabi's code is a great achievement for the Babylonian culture because it was the first type of official law and can be seen as a precursor to today's legislature.
A writ of habeas corpus is used to bring a prisoner or other detainee (e.g. institutionalized mental patient) before the court to determine if the person's imprisonment or detention is lawful. A habeas petition proceeds as a civil action against the State agent (usually a warden) who holds the defendant in custody.