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Coup 53
Directed by Taghi Amirani
“THE WEST has an extremely ugly history” in the Middle East, US dissident Noam Chomsky told the BBC in 2011 and though we may not pay attention to it, the people in the region negatively impacted by Western military and economic interference do not forget.
A good example of Chomsky’s truism is the 1953 coup in Iran, the subject of Taghi Amirani’s brilliant new documentary Coup 53.
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