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At the end of last month, the U.S. State Department quietly publisheda trove of hundreds of documents detailing the American role in Iran's 1953 coup.

In that year, acombined CIA and British plot deposed democratically elected Prime MinisterMohammed Mossadegh, an act fueled by Cold War geopolitics as well as Western indignationat Mossadegh's nationalization of Iran's oil assets. The coup may feel distant to Americans, but it lives long in the imagination of many in the Middle East. "This is still such an important, emotional benchmark for Iranians," said Malcolm Byrne, the director of researchofthe nongovernmental National Security Archive at George Washington University, to the Associated Press. "Many people see it as the day that Iranian politics turned away from any hope of democracy."

Mossadegh's overthrow and the restoration of the shah of Iran's authoritarian, pro-Western regime animated the idea of the United States and Britain, whose Anglo-Persian Oil Company (now known as BP) once dominated the Iranianoil industry, as meddling neo-imperialist oppressors.And it's still relevant at a time when a whole wing of the Washington establishment openlydesiresregime change in Tehran.

Mossadeghwas a populist nationalist irked by the control Western powers had over Iran's natural wealth. British oil interests in Iran functionedin a neocolonial context through World War II, Iranian workers endured cholera and food shortages in the major British-run refinery to help keep the Allied war machine humming. In 1951, Mossadegh decided to nationalize the British oil holdings, sparking a global crisis and a British- and U.S.-led boycott.

In January 1952, Time magazinenamed Mossadegh the Person of the Year in an unflattering cover story. It described him as a "strange old wizard" far too cozy withMoscow and sneeringly gestured to Iran as "a mountainous land between Baghdad and the Sea of Caviar." A year and a half later, the CIA orchestrated a takeover that removed Mossadegh, reinstated the shah and put the oil back in British hands.

The newly published papers part of a tranche ofmore than 1,000 documentsrelated to official American correspondence on the Iranian coup from both the Truman and Eisenhower administrations exposein greater depth howU.S. interests were motivated by both the fear of Iranian communists as well as a desire to help Britainregain control over its oil assets. Althoughstill a bit skimpy on how the coup was executed, the documents show how involved various organs of the American foreign policy apparatus were in trying to force Mossadegh out. That included Loy Henderson, then the American ambassador in Tehran.

"Every so often Henderson would pronounce with a straight face that the U.S. had the principled policy of never interfering in another countrys internal politics," wrote Ervand Abrahamian, a historian of Iran, after scanning the newly published items. "Then he would plunge in without batting an eye."

Abrahamian also notes that althoughthe conventional narrative is that the United States, unlike Britain, wasn't too concernedabout Iran's oil, it seems that American officials were still concerned about the consequences of a country in the Middle East choosing to reclaim its assets.

"The example [of successful nationalization] might have grave effects on U.S. oil concession in other parts of the world," Eisenhower notes in one Cabinet discussion.

The documents show how the CIA guided virtually every step of Mossadegh's removal, including helping generate pro-monarchy, anti-Mossadegh protests on the streets. In one paper, Kermit Roosevelt Jr. the chief CIA official orchestrating the coup, and someone with perhaps the most 20th-century American name possible was thrilled when the militarystarted to pound leftist counter-demonstrators from the Tudeh Party, which was linked to Moscow.

"There was one other very encouraging sign Sunday evening, and that was that Tudeh began some demonstrations ...and acting without orders, the Army started to beat the hell out of them, and they carted away four truckloads of bloody Tudeh demonstrators Sunday afternoon, and they had no authorization," Roosevelt said."It was just a spontaneous thing, and that gave us tremendous encouragement." By then, Mossadegh had already slipped into exile. The shah would soon return and more than two decades of autocratic rule would follow.

Another revelation from the new archive shows how the CIA also wooed Ayatollah Abol-Ghasem Kashani, perhaps the most importantreligious figure at the time, whose dropping of support for Mossadeghproved fatal for his rule.The new documents show that Kashani, who was an inspiration for the Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, solicited financial assistance from the Americans. When the shah landed in Iran in August 1953, some Islamist newspapers hailed the coup that ousted Mossadegh as a "holy uprising."

There are many ironies to unwind here. Butit's not clear the current administration is sensitive to any of them.

Last month, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson seemed to suggest that regime changewas the intentof the Trump administration, which has made no secret of its dislike of the Islamic Republic. At a session of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Tillerson said that U.S. policy toward Iran would be to counter its attempts at regional"hegemony, contain their ability to develop obviously nuclear weapons, and to work toward support of those elements inside of Iran that would lead to a peaceful transition of that government."

That reference to elements working toward a "transition" ledIranian officials to fire back an angry response. "Since the 1950s, the United States tried to meddle in Iranian affairs by different strategies such as coup dtat, regime change, and military intervention," said Bahram Qassemi, a spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry.

Althoughthere many reasons to object to Iran's theocratic leadership, American officials play a dangerous and perhaps self-defeating game by displaying their historical amnesia.

"The things we did were 'covert,'" Eisenhower notedin a diary entry on Oct. 8, 1953. "If knowledge of them became public, we would not only be embarrassed in that region, but our chances to do anything of like nature in the future would almost totally disappear."

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An Iranian cancer researcher traveling to the US to work as a visiting scholar at Boston Childrens Hospital has been detained at Boston Logan International Airport.

An Iranian cancer researcher traveling to Massachusetts to work at Boston Childrens Hospital has been detained at Logan International Airport along with his wife and children, and will be sent back to Iran.

The detention of Dr. Mohsen Dehnavi, who holds a visiting work visa, comes two weeks after the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could partially enforce an executive order banning people from six Muslim-majority countries, including Iran, from entering the United States. STAT, a science publication affiliated with The Boston Globe, first reported the detention.

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Boston Childrens said in a statement Tuesday that Dehnavi is a visiting research scholar on a J-1 visa coming to Boston Childrens with his wife and three children. He and his family are being detained at Logan [and] are supposed to be sent back to Iran later today.

US Customs and Border Protection denied that Dehnavi was stopped under Trumps executive order.

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This individual was deemed inadmissible to the US based on information discovered during the [customs] inspection for reasons unrelated to the Executive Order, the agency said in a statement.

In order to demonstrate that they are admissible, the applicant must overcome ALL grounds of inadmissibility including health-related grounds, criminality, security reasons, public charge, labor certification, illegal entrants and immigration violations, documentation requirements, and miscellaneous grounds, the agency said.

As is customary with individuals denied entry to the US, they will depart on the next scheduled flight, the statement read.

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The hospital said it had limited information about the circumstances of Dehnavis detention. In the same statement, Childrens also held out hope that Dehnavi and his family would be allowed to stay.

Boston Childrens hopes that this situation will be quickly resolved and Dr. Dehnavi and his family will be released and allowed to enter the US, the statement said. The Hospital is committed to doing its utmost to support Dr. Dehnavi and his family.

Officials with Attorney General Maura Healeys office said they have been in touch with MassPort, the agency that runs Logan, and Boston Childrens and are learning more about Dehnavis situation.

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UAE is among a host of Arab nations to have imposed political and economic sanctions on Qatar due to claims that the tiny Gulf state is fostering terrorism and courting Iran.

"Don't believe that they (UAE) are focusing on Iran," Al Attiyah, who also served as energy minister, insisted. "If they are focusing on Iran they must cut full diplomatic relations with Iran, stop business with Iran."

"If you see the trade comparison, Qatar and Iran is nothing," Al Attiyah added.

International diplomats have been weighing in on the matter, hoping to strike a resolve. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is currently visiting the Persian Gulf in a bid to help settle the ongoing dispute between Qatar and its neighbours. He stopped first in Kuwait to speak to the Emir and Foreign Minister and is due to visit Qatar and Saudi Arabia later this week.

However, Qatar, which fervently rejects the allegations, has so far rejected demands tabled by its neighboring states and accused them of "clear aggression."

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