Coup, Illustrated: Iran, Oil, and the CIA Overthrow of 1953

A graphic novel by author Mike De Seve and artist Daniel Burwen illustrates the 1953 U.S.- and British-backed coup against Iranian Prime Minister Mossadegh in highly cinematic fashion.

A panel from Operation Ajax: The Story of the CIA Coup That Remade the Middle East (Verso Books)

by Nima Shirazi

In the sweltering late summer heat of 1953, a fifteen-year-old boy who would, a few decades and thousands of miles later, become my father, walked to his older brother’s shop near the center of Tehran. The streets of the densely-populated capit…