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Espionage Doc 'Coup 53' Shines a Timely Spotlight on the West's Role in Iran's Troubled History

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To celebrate its centenary year in December 2019, the picturesque art deco Aldeburgh Cinema in the English county of Suffolk welcomed local-boy-done-good Ralph Fiennes to present one of his own films.

Fiennes —who was actually born 43 minutes drive away in Ipswich — might have been expected to choose from his Oscar or BAFTA-nominated performances in films such as The English Patient, Schindler’s List, The Constant Gardener or The Grand Budapest Hotel, or perhaps even one of his turns behind the camera, such as Coriolanus or The White Crow.

But he brought Coup 53, Taghi Amirani’s debut feature documentary about the covert U.S./U.K. operations to overthrow Iran’s first democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953.

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