Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Yayin da Yakin Cacar Baki ya tsananta, tattaunawar mai ta tsaya cak, kuma Shugaban Jamhuriyar Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower ya maye gurbin Shugaban Demokradiyya Harry S. Truman, Amurka ta taimaka wajen lalata Mosaddeq a kan ka'idar cewa "haɓaka tashin hankali na ciki da ci gaba da tabarbarewar tattalin arziki... na iya haifar da rushewar ikon gwamnati da kuma buɗe hanya don aƙalla ɗaukar hankali a hankali" ta ƙungiyar Tudeh ta Iran da ke da tsari sosai. A cikin bazara da lokacin rani na 1953, CIA da MI6 sun aiwatar da Ayyukan Ajax
, wanda aka gudanar daga Ofishin Jakadancin Amurka a Tehran, yana taimakawa wajen shirya juyin mulki don kawar da gwamnatin Mossadeq. Aikin da farko ya gaza, kuma Shah ya gudu zuwa Italiya, amma ƙoƙari na biyu ya yi nasara, kuma an daure Mosaddeq.