Gregory Brew
Deputy Managing Editor
Gregory Brew is a historian of international oil, modern Iran, and U.S.-Iranian relations during the Cold War. He completed his Phd in history at Georgetown University in 2018. From 2018 to 2020 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. His book on the origins of the U.S.-Iran Cold War alliance and the birth of the Pahlavi "petro-state" is under review at Cambridge University Press.
Author's Articles
The Collapse Narrative: The United States, Mohammed Mossadegh, and the Coup Decision of 1953
The Collapse Narrative: The United States, Mohammed Mossadegh, and the Coup Decision of 1953
On Aug. 19, 1953, elements inside Iran organized and funded by the Central Intelligence Agency and British intelligence services carried out a coup d’état that overthrew the government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh. Historians have yet to reach a…