Mohammad Mosaddegh

Mohammad Mosaddegh 16 June 1882 5 March 1967 was an Iranian politician author and lawyer who served as the prime minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953 elected by the 16th Majlis He was elected to the Iranian parliament in 1923 and served through a contentious 1952 election into the 17th Iranian Majlis until his government was overthrown in the 1953 Iranian coup détat aided by the intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom MI6 and the United States CIA led by Kermit Roosevelt Jr As prime minister he implemented policies that came to be known as Mosaddeghism