How Iran’s Shah was helped to power

When the popular Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh nationalised British oil interests in the country, MI6, with the help of the CIA, engineered his removal and replaced him with the young Shah in 1953. The effects of this coup are still playing out today. It was masterminded by a shadowy MI6 operative called Norman Darbyshire, who was once interviewed but refused to be filmed in the 1980s. Ralph Fiennes reads the transcript of the interview for this eye-opening documentary. Amazon, available now