The Soviet Union and Mossadegh's Government in Iran at the Height of the Cold War

Thursday, April 24, 2025, 4:30 –6pm
K262, CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA

Muhammed Mossadegh's left-wing government in Iran established close ties with the Soviet Union in the early 1950s. This seminar will explore those ties and the reactions of U.S. policymakers to what they saw as the Soviet government's dangerous inroads into a key energy-producing region.

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