Food for thought :

Cabinet plot against the PM - Yes, Prime Minister - BBC comedy 

National Uprising as in Iran! And thank God Mosadeq and his Commie pals were put down!

I didn't know Moe had commie pals...

Now you know....

Read the State Department published documents of 1950 [regarding the assassination of Razmara] that I translated in Persian section. Mossadegh was a nobody. He didn't count. The choice was between the Shah and the free world on one hand, and the Communism on the other hand. Neutrality was just a tool for the communists to advance their goal by keeping the hesitant individuals out of the free world camp until the situation for the strike is ripe. So ‘neutrality’ was playing right in the hands of Soviets. Some joined the ‘neutrality’ attitude knowingly, and exactly with the Soviets objectives in mind, many joined it for the lack of deep understanding of the situation or/and reactionary and anti-modernist definition that they had -and still do- of ‘independence’.

I recall Mr. Kambiz Atabay once wrote that Shah and Mossadegh had nothing in common except the support for the nationalization of the oil industry. This sounds very true. But in retrospect, I think the support should have gone for Razmara and his approach of getting a better deal with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. But I suppose there was not enough strength and stamina to face the reactionary populist nationalization movement.

In his memoir ‘Zendegi Toofani’, Taghizadeh noted that if Massadegh wan’t engaged in toppling the Pahlavi dynasty he would have been prime minister for many years to come. Toppling the Shah was the communist agenda and should have been stopped. I’m not sure that toppling the Pahlavi dynasty to Mossadegh meant toppling the monarchy. More likely he was after restoring the Qajar dynasty. But as I said, what he was cooking in his filthy brain didn’t count. What was the issue was the outcome, which was already outlined by the ‘cold war’.

Nationalization movement derailed the modernity agenda. Instead of exploring the individual rights and modern definition of ‘citizen’ [as opposed to ‘ra’yiat’] which ensure true ‘independence’, it has already substituted the notion of ‘nation’ by ‘ommat’. And we did not come out of it since.

So your survey is dysfunctional. Technically speaking, it wasn’t even a ‘coup’. It was a ‘counter-coup’ carried out by legitimate authorities [and substantial support of the people]. But it’s not even like the Turkey event. Because although it had for the goal to neutralize Toodeh party, it wasn’t ‘designed’ by the authorities from the scratch. It was carried out against something upon which they had no control.

Not a good survey, but a ‘food for thought’ nonetheless.

Here is the link to the above mentioned document in Persian.