Mozzafar Baghai
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Mozzafar Baghai | |
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Tehran | |
| In office 12 June 1947 – 28 July 1949 Serving with Ahmad Razavi | |
| Constituency | Kerman |
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| Born | 23 July 1912 Kerman, Persia |
| Died | 18 November 1987 (aged 75) Tehran, Iran |
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| Other political affiliations | National Front (1949–52) |
Mozzafar Baghai (
Mohammad Reza Shah (who had succeeded his father as Shah of Iran
in Sept. 1941).
Until 1952, Baghai stood by Mossadegh in his struggle against the United Kingdom and his intensifying dispute in Iran with the pro-Shah elements, who had opposed Mossadegh's style of governing and his policies vis-a-vis the UK. From 1952 to 1953, Bagai served in the seventeenth Majlis, from which he initially used to support Mossadegh's government. But by late 1952, Baghai had become disillusioned with Mossadegh, pulling his
CIA and MI6 sponsored a coup d'etat
against Mossadegh which succeeded in toppling his government and restoring the monarchy to Iran. Due to his role in bringing down Mossadegh, Baghai was at the time shunned by the ex-premier's colleagues and the Iranian public (most of whom had remained sympathetic to Mossadegh and his role in fighting imperialism abroad and despotism at home).
Baghai died in 1987.[2]
See also
Sources
- ^ a b Leonard Binder (1964), Iran, University of California Press, p. 212
- ISBN 978-1-7936-0007-3.
External links
Media related to Mozaffar Baqai at Wikimedia Commons- Abrahamian, Ervand, Iran Between Two Revolutions, Princeton University Press, 1982.
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