Fazlollah Zahedi was an Iranian lieutenant general and statesman who replaced the Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh through a coup d'état supported by the United States and the United Kingdom.
Fazlollah Zahedi
Zahedi (far left) with Richard Nixon at the Shah's Tehran palace on 13 December 1953
Zahedi with his daughter Homa and his son Ardeshir
Mohammad Mosaddegh 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. His National Front was suppressed from the 1954 election.
Mohammad Mosaddegh
Mosaddegh's uncle Abdolhossein Mirza Farmanfarma and mother Princess Malek Taj Najm-es-Saltaneh
A young Mosaddegh
Mossadegh as Prime minister of Iran