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Mohammad Mosaddegh

1882 - 1967

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Mohammad Mosaddegh (Persian: محمد مصدق, IPA: [mohæmˈmæd(-e) mosædˈdeɢ] ; 16 June 1882 – 5 March 1967) was an Iranian politician, author, and lawyer who served as the 30th Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953, elected by the 16th Majlis. He was a member of the Iranian parliament from 1923, and served through a contentious 1952 election into the 17th Iranian Majlis, until his government was overthrown in the 1953 Iran coup aided by the intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom (MI6) and the United States (CIA), led by Kermit Roosevelt Jr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mohammad Mosaddegh has received more than 2,896,999 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Mohammad Mosaddegh is the 1,007th most popular politician (up from 1,120th in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from Iran and the 23rd most popular Iranian Politician.

Mohammad Mosaddegh was the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953. He is most famous for his nationalization of the Iranian oil industry and his overthrow by a CIA-backed coup d'état.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mohammad Mosaddegh ranks 1,007 out of 19,576. Before him are Andronikos II Palaiologos, Manuel II Palaiologos, Pietro Badoglio, Alexander Kolchak, Isaac II Angelos, and Rashid-al-Din Hamadani. After him are Asa of Judah, Humayun, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, Dzhokhar Dudayev, Jerry Brown, and Anton Drexler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Mohammad Mosaddegh ranks 18. Before him are Abdullah I of Jordan, Ion Antonescu, Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Günther von Kluge, Kurt von Schleicher, and Abd el-Krim. After him are Percy Williams Bridgman, Melanie Klein, Getúlio Vargas, Princess Margaret of Connaught, Umberto Boccioni, and Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark. Among people deceased in 1967, Mohammad Mosaddegh ranks 9. Before him are René Magritte, Konrad Adenauer, Vivien Leigh, Puyi, Casimir Funk, and Vladimir Komarov. After him are Clement Attlee, Ilse Koch, Spencer Tracy, Zoltán Kodály, Jack Ruby, and André Maurois.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh ranks 50 out of 631. Before him are Shapur I (150), Ardashir I (180), Cambyses I (-600), Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903), Bahá'u'lláh (1817), and Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (1247). After him are Doris Lessing (1919), Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (1932), Yazdegerd III (624), Shirin Ebadi (1947), Ghazan (1271), and Astyages (-700).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh ranks 23. Before him are Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956), Farah Pahlavi (1938), Shapur I (150), Ardashir I (180), Cambyses I (-600), and Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (1247). After him are Yazdegerd III (624), Ghazan (1271), Astyages (-700), Moshe Katsav (1945), Cyaxares (-700), and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1934).

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