Kammala wannan jumla: A shekara ta 1953 CIA, tare da gwamnatin Birtaniya, sun fara "
Operation Ajax" a kan Firayim Ministan Iran Mohammad Mossadegh wanda ya yi ƙoƙari ya mallaki man fetur na Iran, yana barazana ga bukatun kamfanin Anglo-Persian Oil Company. Wannan yana da tasirin maidowa da karfafa mulkin mallaka na Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. A shekara ta 1957, CIA da Mossad na Isra'ila sun taimaka wa gwamnatin Iran wajen kafa sashen leken asiri, SAVAK, wanda daga baya aka zarge shi da azabtarwa da kashe masu adawa da gwamnatin.