When was Mohammad Mosaddegh born and where?
Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh entered the world on the 19th of May 1882, in Ahmedabad near Tehran.
Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh entered the world on the 19th of May 1882, in Ahmedabad near Tehran.
On the 15th of March 1951, Mosaddegh nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company which had operated since 1913 through British concessions. He declared that Iran owned all oil within its borders and cancelled the existing concession set to expire in 1993.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles directed the CIA on the 14th of March 1953, to draft plans for removal while Kermit Roosevelt Jr. arrived in Tehran to lead Operation Ajax. Massive protests paid by American agents turned violent leaving almost three hundred dead before pro-Shah tank regiments bombarded the prime minister's residence.
Authorities denied him a funeral and buried him in his living room despite requests for burial in public graveyards beside victims of political violence. This decision prevented potential political furor over his final resting place.
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians marked the twelfth anniversary of Mohammad Mosaddegh's death on the 5th of March 1979 with crowds exceeding one million people. His overthrow served as a rallying point during anti-US protests throughout the 1979 revolution and he remains one of the most popular historical figures in modern Iran today.