![TIL that Mohammad Mosaddegh was the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran who was overthrown by the US CIA in 1953 for having the audacity to nationalize the Iranian oil industry to TIL that Mohammad Mosaddegh was the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran who was overthrown by the US CIA in 1953 for having the audacity to nationalize the Iranian oil industry to](https://external-preview.redd.it/-dC0TCMMtJT7w41y52OFda5E1iyBvnbUPU7_o9eV9sI.jpg?auto=webp&s=5e0a106b3c5fa443c94e599eac48de827f738479)
TIL that Mohammad Mosaddegh was the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran who was overthrown by the US CIA in 1953 for having the audacity to nationalize the Iranian oil industry to
![File:Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran accompanied by Dr. Gholem Hossein Mossadegh and Zia Achraf Bayat.jpg - Wikimedia Commons File:Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran accompanied by Dr. Gholem Hossein Mossadegh and Zia Achraf Bayat.jpg - Wikimedia Commons](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Prime_Minister_Mohammad_Mossadegh_of_Iran_accompanied_by_Dr._Gholem_Hossein_Mossadegh_and_Zia_Achraf_Bayat.jpg)
File:Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran accompanied by Dr. Gholem Hossein Mossadegh and Zia Achraf Bayat.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
![Pauline Park on Twitter: "#MohammadMossadegh was born #OnThisDay in 1882; as prime minister of a pro-Western democratic #Iran, he was overthrown in a 1953 coup d'état engineered by the #CIA & #MI6; # Pauline Park on Twitter: "#MohammadMossadegh was born #OnThisDay in 1882; as prime minister of a pro-Western democratic #Iran, he was overthrown in a 1953 coup d'état engineered by the #CIA & #MI6; #](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9MM9xWX4AAKhFr.jpg)