19 August 1953

August 19, 1953 was the worst day in Iranian modern history. On that horrible day, Iran lost independence, freedom, democracy and constitution.
Iran was deprived of a democratic, secular and nationalist regime.

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, under the direction of CIA and MI6, and with the help of high-ranking Shia clerics, anti-democratic military officers, and paid mercenary toppled the democratic government and replaced it with a brutal tyranny.

Ayatollah Kashani and his son played major roles during the coup as well as during the activities prior to the coup. Kashani publicly attacked Mossadegh and was supporting the Shah since late 1952. When the Shah announced that he was leaving Iran on February 28, 1953, Ayatollah Kashani made the following statement:

"People be warned! Treacherous decisions have resulted in the decision of our beloved and democratic shah to leave the country... You should realize that if the shah goes, whatever we have will go with him. Rise up and stop him, and make him change his mind. Because, today, our existence and independence depend on the very person of His Majesty Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, and no one else.

Kermit Roosevelt, the CIA chief of operations in Tehran, gave $10,000 to Ayatollah Kashani on August 18, a day before the coup. Two weeks after the August 19 coup, Ayatollah Kashani said in an interview that " Mossadegh was guilty of high treason and had to be punished by death."

According to Dr. Mark J. Gasiorowski, American Political Scientist and one of the foremost scholars of the coup:

Several days after the coup, the British received a report from the Iraqi ambassador in Tehran that the Shah and Zahedi together had visited Kashani, kissed his hands, and thanked him for his help in restoring the monarchy.
One CIA officer said, Kashani's son visited him several times after the coup to remind him of the role played by his father.


AND THIS IS HOW HE HAS BEEN PORTRAYED AFTER 1979:



Ayatollah Kashani was born in Tehran, (1264 solar year). He was called Abol-Qasem. His father (Ayatollah Hajj Seyyed Mostafa Kashani) was a great
clergyman of Shiism in his period. Abou Al-Qasem was trained in a holy and virtuous family under the attention of his religious parents. He began the learning of Quran recitation after he got the knowledge of reading and writing.
Seyyed Abou Al-Qasem went to Seminary and learned literature, Arabic language, logic, semantics and speech, jurisprudence and principles when he was 16. He went to Iraq in order to learn more about Quran, and "Hadiths". He continued his
education in Holy Najaf Seminary and got Jurisprudence degree when he was 25 years old. He had liberal thoughts from younghood and hated
oppression, despotism and colonization and opposed with them. He was younger and fresher than other religious leaders, so he was on the first line of fight. AllIslamic scientists have a simple life out of gathering money. Ayatollah Kashani’s life was like this, too.
He died in 1340 (solar year). Finally he cut foreigners’
hand from Iran by nationalization of oil industry!!!!