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To: NOW who wrote (17845)	4/22/2003 10:40:10 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 89467

I sure do. The Majles elected him Prime Minister in 1950, which did not make him leader of Iran or even second in command. The Shah was leader of Iran. Later, Mossadeq overthrew the Shah & Mossadeq was subsequently overthrown shortly thereafter, placing the Shah back into power........ Ali Razmara became prime minister in June 1950. and was assassinated in March 1951. In April the Shah yielded to Majles pressure and demonstrations in the streets by naming Mossadeq prime minister. <NOT DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED>. His popularity, growing power, and intransigence on the oil issue were creating friction between the prime minister and the Shah. In the summer of 1952, the Shah refused the prime minister's demand for the power to appoint the minister of war (and, by implication, to control the armed forces). Mossadegh resigned, three days of pro-Mossadegh rioting followed, and the Shah was forced to reappoint Mossadegh to head the government <NOT DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED>. The United States came to accept the view of the British government that no reasonable compromise with Mossadegh was possible and that, by working with the Tudeh Party, Mossadegh was making probable a communist-inspired takeover. Mossadegh's intransigence and inclination to accept Tudeh support, the Cold War atmosphere, and the fear of Soviet influence in Iran also shaped United States thinking. In June 1953, the Eisenhower administration approved a British proposal for a joint Anglo-American operation, code-named Operation Ajax, to overthrow Mossadeq. Kermit Roosevelt of the CIA traveled secretly to Iran to coordinate plans with the Shah and the Iranian military, which was led by General Fazlollah Zahedi. In accord with the plan, on August 13 the shah appointed Zahedi prime minister to replace Mossadegh <as was his right as leader of Iran>. Mossadegh refused to step down and arrested the Shah's emissary. This triggered the second stage of Operation Ajax, which called for a military coup. The plan initially seemed to have failed, the Shah fled the country, and Zahedi went into hiding. After four days of rioting, however, the tide turned. On August 19, pro-shah army units and street crowds defeated Mossadegh's forces. The Shah returned to the country <AND RESUMED POWER AS LEADER OF IRAN AGAIN>. persepolis.free.fr