Mohammad Mosaddegh

Mohammad Mosaddegh

Mohammad Mosaddegh was the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran who was overthrown by the USA’s CIA in 1953 for having the audacity to nationalize the Iranian oil industry to wrest it from the hands of the United Kingdom and the Americans.

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