Joe Ayella
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AMERICAN COUP tells the story of the first coup ever carried out by the CIA - Iran, 1953. Explores the blowback from this seminal event, as well as the coup's lingering effects on the present US-Iranian relationship. Includes a segment on the 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis and its relation to the 1953 coup. Concludes with a section on the recent Iranian presidential election. Contains interviews with noted Middle East experts and historians and prominent public figures such as Stephen Kinzer (author, All The Shah's Men), Prof. Ervand Abrahamian, Trita Parsi, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Ted Koppel and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. With Iranian cinematography by James Longley.
American Coup
A fresh look at the FBI's investigation into the 2016 Trump Campaign and its many contacts with the Russians. What triggered the investigation, and what did it find? And why - apropos of nothing - does Donald Trump keep bringing up that salacious rumor about Russian prostitutes in a Moscow hotel? Narrated by Stormy Daniels, star witness at the 2024 trial that resulted in Trump being convicted of 34 felonies. —Joe Ayella