In the 1950s, CIA operative Kermit Roosevelt was in charge of toppling this country's PM Mossadegh
The CIA has publicly admitted for the first time that it was behind the notorious 
1953 coup against Iran's democratically elected prime minister Mohammad 
Mosaddeq, ... Kermit Roosevelt, the senior CIA officer on the ground in Iran 
during ... for centuries Britain had manipulated their country for British ends".