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...ime minister of Iran. This overthrow was named [[Operation Ajax]].Mohammed Mossadegh thought that nationalization was the only way to prevent British exploitati On [[August 19]] [[1953]], the incumbent democratic Prime Minister, [[Mohammed Mossadeq]], was forced from office and replaced by Zahedi and the Shah was

...ernment of nationalist Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq (sometimes spelled Mossadegh) nationalized the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC). The Shah

...f the [[Dwight Eisenhower|Eisenhower]] Administration to depose [[Mohammed Mossadegh]] in 1953.