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Muhammad Mussadegh
Muhammad Mussadegh , 1880-1967, Iranian political leader, prime minister of Iran (1951-53). He held a variety of government posts (1914-25) but retired to private life in protest against the shah's assumption of dictatorial powers in 1925. He returned to government (1944) as a member of parliament a... Read more
Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlevi
Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlevi , 1919-80, shah of Iran (1941-79). Educated in Switzerland, he returned (1935) to Iran to attend the military academy in Tehran. He ascended the throne in 1941 after his father, Reza Shah Pahlevi , was suspected of collaboration with the Germans and was deposed by British... Read more
Iran
Iran , officially Islamic Republic of Iran, republic (2005 est. pop. 68,018,000), 636,290 sq mi (1,648,000 sq km), SW Asia. The country's name was changed from Persia to Iran in 1935. Iran is bordered on the north by Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and the Caspian Sea; on the east by Afghanistan ... Read more

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Muhammad Mussadegh
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Muhammad Mussadegh , 1880-1967, Iranian political leader...forced to appoint him prime minister. Mussadegh's refusal to negotiate a settlement...crisis developed, and in Aug., 1953, Mussadegh's government was overthrown by the...
Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlevi
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...member of the leftist Tudeh party, and in 1953 he briefly fled the country after a clash with the supporters of Muhammad Mussadegh. A moderate, the shah launched (1963) a reform program with U.S. assistance called the "White Revolution," which...

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Mussadegh, Muhammad
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Mussadegh, Muhammad (1880–1967) Iranian political leader. An Iranian landowner and politician, in 1950 he led the democratic...
Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Iran (1941–79). The son of Reza PAHLAVI , he succeeded on the abdication of his father. After the fall of MUSSADEGH in 1953 he gained supreme power and with the aid of greatly increased oil revenues, embarked upon a policy of rapid social...
Iran
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Reza Shah PAHLAVI . It took him 20 years to establish political supremacy, during which time one of his Prime Ministers, Mussadegh, nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (1951). In 1961 the Shah initiated a land-reform scheme and a programme...

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Analysis: Intellectual debate over why various countries hate the US
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 10/12/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...States. At the time the term was coined, he says, the prime example was the assassination of Iran's premier, Muhammad Mussadegh. Mr. CHALMERS JOHNSON (Author, "Blowback"): The result of this egregious interference in the affairs...
IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1951: Oil Nationalized
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 5/3/2001; 170 words ; ...interests, the government radio announced. British Ambassador Sir Francis Shepherd called on the new Premier, Dr. Mohammed Mussadegh, and on the Shah, presumably to ask him to attempt to influence the Premier toward a moderate course. 2001 Copyright International...
BRINGING IRONIC (AND UGLY) SLICES OF HISTORY TO LIGHT.(L.A. LIFE)(Review)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 11/10/1996; 700+ words ; ...abused its power during the Cold War - thus letting Congress off the hook for such CIA excesses as the overthrowing of Muhammed Mussadegh in Iran in 1953 and a coup against Guatemalan leader Jacobo Arbenz in 1954. But Congress did have oversight at the time...
Cold War blues: with one eye on Baghdad.(The Cold War, The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB and the World, Comrade Roberts: Recollections of a Trotskyite)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 11/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...no cowboy. He is as blunt about America's failures as its successes. President Eisenhower's overthrow in 1953 of the Mussadegh government in Iran ultimately gave the world the Ayatollah Khomeini. His overthrow of Arbenz in Guatemala ultimately delivered...