From the wiki article on Iran-US relations:“As the Cold War intensified, oil negotiations stalled, and the Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower replaced Democratic President Harry S. Truman, the United States helped destabilize Mosaddeq on the theory that “rising internal tensions and continued deterioration … might lead to a breakdown of government authority and open the way for at least a gradual assumption of control” by Iran’s well organized Tudeh communist party.34 In spring and summer 1953, the United States and Britain, through a covert operation of the CIA called Operation Ajax, conducted from the American Embassy in Tehran, helped organize a coup d’état to overthrow the Mossadeq government. The operation initially failed, and the Shah fled to Italy, but a second attempt succeeded, and Mosaddeq was imprisoned."Is fomenting a coup against a legal government an act of war? If so, the war began in 1953, started by the US.
From the wiki article on Iran-US relations:“As the Cold War intensified, oil negotiations stalled, and the Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower replaced Democratic President Harry S. Truman, the United States helped destabilize Mosaddeq on the theory that “rising internal tensions and continued deterioration … might lead to a breakdown of government authority and open the way for at least a gradual assumption of control” by Iran’s well organized Tudeh communist party.34 In spring and summer 1953, the United States and Britain, through a covert operation of the CIA called Operation Ajax, conducted from the American Embassy in Tehran, helped organize a coup d’état to overthrow the Mossadeq government. The operation initially failed, and the Shah fled to Italy, but a second attempt succeeded, and Mosaddeq was imprisoned."Is fomenting a coup against a legal government an act of war? If so, the war began in 1953, started by the US.