"My sin - my greater sin [...] and even my greatest sin is that I nationalized Iran's oil industry and discarded the system of political and economic exploitation by the world's great empire (The U.K.) [...] This at the cost to myself, my family; and at the risk of losing my life, my honor and my property.""
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Mohammad Mosaddegh, quoted in Limu Shirin, by Arya Parsipur, p. 22
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Mohammad Mosaddegh
Mohammad Mosaddegh, also spelled Mosaddeq, (Persian: Ù…ØÙ…د مصدق‎) (16 June 1882 – 5 March 1967) was an Iranian politician who served as the 35th Prime Minister of Iran, holding office from 1951 until 1953, when his government was overthrown in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état orchestrated by the United Kingdom's MI6.
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