Between 1945 and 1959,U.S.policy in the Middle East saw
A) the Eisenhower administration assist in the construction of the Aswan Dam.
B) the Truman administration refuse to recognize the state of Israel.
C) President Eisenhower seek to end the rule of Egyptian leader Gamal Nasser during the Suez crisis.
D) the CIA engineer a coup that brought the shah of Iran to power.
E) the U.S. refuse to join in a UN resolution denouncing British and French actions during the Suez crisis.

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The CIA engineered a coup in 1953, known as Operation Ajax, which helped to bring the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, to power.