Iran was a democratic country until the United States of America funded a coup in Iran known as ‘Operation Ajax’ in 1953.

The articles published by the Latin Library and Lapham’s Quarterly confirm that Iran was a democratic country before the occurrence of war in 1953.

The articles published by the Latin Library and Lapham’s Quarterly confirm that Iran was a democratic country before the occurrence of war in 1953.The articles published by the Latin Library and Lapham's Quarterly states about Central Intelligence Agency's role in the 1953 coup known as Operation Ajax that brought down Iranian Prime Minister Muhammad Mossadegh, a democratically elected leader, in order to restore the power to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran.

The document published by the Central Intelligence Agency on 14 April 2007, states that the United States of America carried out its first successful regime-change operation and targeted democratically elected government in Iran with the CIA's covert intervention Operation Ajax codenamed as TPAJAX to preserve the Shah's power in Iran.