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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 Iranian coup d'état 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 2,719,672 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia. Mohammad Mosaddegh is the 1,122nd most popular politician (down from 1,021st in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from Iran (down from 47th in 2019) and the 25th 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 1,122 out of 15,577. Before him are Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, Idris of Libya, Albert II of Germany, William II of the Netherlands, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain. After him are Ahmed Ben Bella, Valentinian II, Safiyya bint Huyayy, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, Gaius Gracchus, and Mayer Amschel Rothschild.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Mohammad Mosaddegh ranks 23. Before him are Kurt von Schleicher, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, Umberto Boccioni, Edward Hopper, Abd el-Krim, and Abdullah I of Jordan. After him are James Franck, Zoltán Kodály, Rodolfo Graziani, Charles Ponzi, Getúlio Vargas, and Emmerich Kálmán. Among people deceased in 1967, Mohammad Mosaddegh ranks 12. Before him are Ilse Koch, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Spencer Tracy, Vladimir Komarov, Clement Attlee, and Edward Hopper. After him are Jack Ruby, Felix Yusupov, André Maurois, Zoltán Kodály, Gordon Allport, and Ilya Ehrenburg.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh ranks 50 out of 528. Before him are Astyages (-700), Abolhassan Banisadr (1933), Yazdegerd III (624), Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (1247), Hassan Rouhani (1948), and Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (1932). After him are Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (940), Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956), Abbas Kiarostami (1940), Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903), Báb (1819), and Cyaxares (-700).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iran

Among politicians born in Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh ranks 25. Before him are Cambyses I (-600), Astyages (-700), Abolhassan Banisadr (1933), Yazdegerd III (624), Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (1247), and Hassan Rouhani (1948). After him are Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (1956), Cyaxares (-700), Ghazan (1271), Cyrus I (-690), Xerxes II of Persia (-500), and Shapur II (309).

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