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You mean news articles years later trying to vilify a country?
Ya like the Iranian tourism website article? :roll:
Let me know when you have something substantial.
Here is a nice timeline and there is no mention of this "referendum".
Timeline of Iranian Coup
All the dates of the articles are from 1953, not 2008+.
Stop the revisionist history please.
lol, either you're illiterate or don't bother to read, from your own damn link:
Aug. 4, 1953
• Mossadegh, suspecting that British and American governments were plotting against him, holds a referendum calling for the Iranian parliament to be dissolved......
http://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-coup-timeline.html
And from the NYT's article contained in that link:
August 21, 1953
Mossadegh Quits Teheran Hideout; Is Held for Trial
Dr. Mossadegh, who had eliminated all means of an orderly change in government and achieved dictatorial powers before his overthrow......
Mossadegh Quits Teheran Hideout; Is Held for Trial
The only one posting revisionist history is YOU, I am posting incontrovertible historical fact, Mossadeq held a national referendum to dissolve parliament in which he garnered a laughable 99.9% yay vote after which he granted himself the power to make law by extending his emergency powers indefinitely, some beacon of democracy you have there. :roll:
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