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1953 Iranian coup d'état, an Epic card
On 19 August 1953, Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown in a coup d'état that strengthened the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 91
- DEF
- 98
- Power
- 189
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 950,000
Ranked #223 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
1953 Iranian coup d'état quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the 1953 Iranian coup d'état card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
A key motive was to protect British oil interests in Iran after Mosaddegh ______ the country's oil industry.
Answer
nationalized. A key motive was to protect British oil interests in Iran after Mosaddegh nationalized the country's oil industry. From the 1953 Iranian coup d'état article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
On 19 August ____, Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown in a coup d'état that strengthened the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran.
Answer
1950s. On 19 August 1953, Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown in a coup d'état that strengthened the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. From the 1953 Iranian coup d'état article on Wikipedia.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It was instigated by the United Kingdom, under the name Operation Boot and the United States, under the name TP-AJAX Project or Operation Ajax.
- A key motive was to protect British oil interests in Iran after Mosaddegh nationalized the country's oil industry.
- Mosaddegh had sought to audit the documents of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, a British corporation, to verify that AIOC was paying the contracted royalties to Iran, and to limit their control over Iranian oil reserves.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The 1953 Iranian coup d'état article was read about 950,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 91 and blocks with 98: each hit it takes is cut by 39 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, 1953 Iranian coup d'état (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
