Get The Cat and the Coup for PC

The Cat and the Coup is a game about the cat of Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, Iran’s first democratically elected Prime Minister. During the summer of 1953, the CIA engineered a coup to bring about his downfall. You coax Mossadegh back through significant events in his life by knocking objects off shelves, scattering his papers and scratching him.

History and perspective

The game draws on Persian miniature art and Cold War foreign policy. It explores the relationship between a Western video game player and Mossadegh, and, by extension, between the United States and Iran. It asks how people can know when their democracy is threatened.