‘Britain is not maintaining fifty thousand troops in Suez for her own glory. We are in Suez as servants and guardians of the commerce of the whole world.’
Winston Churchill, 17 January 1952
‘The 1953 coup had its roots in a British showdown with Iran, restive under decades of near - colonial British domination. The prize was Iran’s oil fields.’
New York Times Special Report: The CIA in Iran,
The New York Times on the Web, 2000