Mohammad Mosaddegh (16 June 1882 – 5 March 1967) was Prime Minister of Iran from 21 July 1952 to 19 August 1953, succeeding Ahmad Qavam and preceding Fazlollah Zahedi.
Biography[]
Mohammad Mosaddegh was born on 16 June 1882 in Tehran, Persia, and he was a lawyer, author, administrator, and member of parliament, and he was a leftist. On 21 July 1952, he was democratically elected as Prime Minister of Iran under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and he passed social security, rent control, and land reform progressive reforms, and he nationalized the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, a controversial move. Mosaddegh was also a secular democrat, and his resistance to foreign domination made him popular with the Iranian people/ The United Kingdom and United States decided to intervene to prevent Iran from leaning towards the Soviet Union, and in 1953 they launched Operation Ajax, overthrowing Mosaddegh. General Fazlollah Zahedi became the new Prime Minister, and Mosaddegh died in the village of Ahmadabad-e Mosaddeq.