ates and generations of Iranians. It would become an even more prominent and lasting grievance than the U.S.- engineered overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq in 1953 or the accidental shooting down of an Iranian airliner over the Persian Gulf in 1988. American war proponents who optimistically hope that

er to American attempts to control Iran's government. Recall the August 1953 military coup that overthrew the elected government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, an event that led to the 25-year autocratic rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. That coup was largely the result of a joint covert operation run