Nojeh coup plot
"Saving Iran's Great Uprising" | |
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Part of Sistan and Baluchestan[2] | |
Result |
Coup d'état failed
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Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization[1]
Intelligence aid:
- Tudeh Party (alleged)[2]
- Neqab Organisation
- Iran Patriotic Officers (NUPA)[2]
Supported by:
- Shapour Bakhtiar
- Manucher Ghorbanifar
- Gen.
- Gen. Ayat Mohaqeqi
- Col. Mohammad Baqer Bani-Ameri
- Col. Hadi Izadi
- Intelligence Unit
Prime Ministry Intelligence Office
The "Saving Iran's Great Uprising" (
Plan
The plan involved officers and servicemen from the infantry,
Failed coup
According to then-President Abolhassan Banisadr, the government discovered eight major cells, and exposed the plotters' plan, leading to the arrests: "their plan was to give the appearance of a coup d'etat to restore the Shah, while the real aim was to provide a pretext to cover the Iraqi invasion. According to the information we received, the conspirators had set up a military camp in [the Iraqi city of] Sulimanieh and planned to ignite a Kurdish revolt and organize demonstrations throughout Iran. Their strategy was simple: internal disorders would first disperse Iranian military forces, so that on the very first day of the Iraqi attack Saddam could occupy the whole Western part of the country."[5] After the failure of the coup,
After coup
Khomeini ordered those arrested for involvement in the coup to be executed, but Banisadr used legal ruses to delay the executions, and when Iraq invaded, most were freed on the promise of a return to active duty.[5] 144 participants were however executed, and in the following months 2,000–4,000 military personnel dismissed.[2] An assassination attempt was made on Shapour Bakhtiar in Paris on 18 July,[2] and on 22 July Ali Akbar Tabatabaei, the former Iranian press attache in the US, was assassinated in Bethesda, Maryland.[7]
References
- ^ Mohammadighalehtaki, Ariabarzan (2012). Organisational Change in Political Parties in Iran after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. With Special Reference to the Islamic Republic Party (IRP) and the Islamic Iran Participation Front Party (Mosharekat) (Ph.D. thesis). Durham University. p. 166.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Mark J. Gasiorowski (2002), "The Nuzhih Plot and Iranian Politics Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine", Int. J. Middle East Stud. 34 (2002), 645–666. DOI: 10.1017.S0020743802004038
- ISBN 9645645573.
ستوانیار محمد اسماعیل قربانی اصل (تنها شهید عملیات خنثیسازی کودتا)
- ^ ISBN 9780415685245.
- ^ a b c d e Kenneth R. Timmerman (1988), Fanning the Flames: Guns, Greed & Geopolitics in the Gulf War, Chapter 5: Thou Shalt Not Threaten American Interest, The Iran Brief
- ^ "Unsuccessful Nojeh Coup". irdc.ir. Islamic Revolution Document Center. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
- ^ PBS, 6 August 2011, 'A Darker Horizon': The Assassination of Shapour Bakhtiar