In this Spotlighting an Author event, Ervand Abrahamian discussed his new book Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup D’Etat. Abrahamian provided analysis on recently declassified CIA and US State Department documents from the Mossadeq administration. He told the story of the Iranian oil crisis, which would eventually culminate in the coup of August 1953. During the extensive Q&A section of the event, Abrahamian answered questions with topics from the Anglo-Soviet Occupation of Iran in 1941 to the revisionist history surrounding the events of 1953, to the lasting effects of the 1953 coup d’etat in both Iran and the United States today.
Ervand Abrahamian is widely regarded as one of the leading historians of modern Iran. He is currently a Professor Emeritus of History at Baruch College and the Graduate Center in the City University of New York. He was previously a Distinguished Professor of History at the City University of New York, and has also taught at the universities of Oxford, Columbia, and Princeton
