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President Harry S. Truman declined two requests by the British to go to war against Iran in 1951 and 1952. But still conceded to a allow a covert CIA operation in conjunction with British Intel. In 1953, General Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the go-ahead of the CIA operation known as Project Ajax (led by Kermit Roosevelt, grandson of Teddy and cousin of FDR) to undermine and overthrow a democratic Muslim government and install a brutal dictator. Why? In order to reinstall BP in control of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.