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    Fazlollah Zahedi (Persian: فضل‌الله زاهدی, romanized: Fazlollāh Zāhedi, pronounced [fæzloɫˈɫɒːh zɒːheˈdiː]; 17 May 1892 – 2 September 1963) was an Iranian...
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  • Zahedi or Zahidi may refer to: Fazlollah Zahedi (1897–1963), Iranian general and prime minister Ardeshir Zahedi, Iranian foreign minister and ambassador...
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    1970s. Born in Tehran on 16 October 1928, he was the son of General Fazlollah Zahedi, who served as prime minister after participating in the CIA-led coup...
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    planning the coup. Following the coup, a government under General Fazlollah Zahedi was formed which allowed Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran (Persian...
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    failed. Following the initial failed coup by the foreign-backed General Fazlollah Zahedi, the CIA sent Roosevelt a telegram on 18 August 1953 telling him to...
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  • captivity in Latrun, where the British also kept Nazi-sympathizer General Fazlollah Zahedi, he saw "six or seven SS prisoners who parachuted into southern Iran...
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    to dismiss Mosaddegh as prime minister and replace him with General Fazlollah Zahedi, a choice agreed on by the British and Americans. Before the attempted...
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    fled the country but nominated General Fazlollah Zahedi as the new Prime Minister. Although General Fazlollah Zahedi was a nationalist, he did not agree...
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    The Shah, who disliked his prime minister, General Fazlollah Zahedi, was well pleased that Zahedi who was suffering from gout was visibly uncomfortable...
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  • vote for Fazlollah [Zahedi]". Time magazine reported: Item: a constituency near Kerman beat up the man Zahedi sent there to be elected; Zahedi suspended...
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    gone into exile during the coup, returned to Iran and named General Fazlollah Zahedi as the new prime minister. Many contemporary sources attribute the...
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    CIA at the request of the British MI6 which chose Iranian General Fazlollah Zahedi to succeed Mosaddegh. The 17th Majlis was ultimately dissolved by Mohammad...
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  • became too quiet for his taste, he travelled east to arrest General Fazlollah Zahedi, at the time the head of the Persian armed forces in the south. The...
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    goal was to overthrow Mossadegh with military support from General Fazlollah Zahedi and install a pro-western regime headed by the Shah of Iran. Kermit...
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    government. He became minister of economic affairs in the cabinet of Fazlollah Zahedi and remained in office until 1955. He was then appointed as the justice...
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  • replaced Iran's first democratically elected Prime Minister with General Fazlollah Zahedi; the government fell back into the hands of its disempowered Mohammad...
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    Minister Mohammad Mossadeq in 1953. A close associate of Prime Minister Fazlollah Zahedi, he was promoted to military governor of Tehran. One of his first major...
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    Encyclopædia Iranica Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi, celebrated poet (1300 AD) Fazlollah Zahedi (1892–1963), military general Fereydoun Moshiri, contemporary poet...
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    his position and forcefully removed Mosaddegh from office. General Fazlollah Zahedi led tanks to Mosaddegh's residence and arrested him for treason. On...
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  • Germanophile and pro-Nazi Germany tendencies. Founded by Ḥabib-Allāh Nowbaḵt, Fazlollah Zahedi, and Shams Qanatabadi were among the figures reportedly affiliated...
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  • leader of Iran, although nominal power was held by Prime Minister Fazlollah Zahedi (who was paid by the CIA to help overthrow Mossadegh and strengthen...
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    Reza were to dismiss both Hossein Ala' and the Prime Minister General Fazlollah Zahedi. At a Christmas party, Perron and Shahrokh handed Wright a note saying...
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  • CIA report, citing sources close to General Fazlollah Zahedi, the new Prime Minister, stated that Zahedi gave Behbahani ten thousand tomans (about a thousand...
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  • edict dismissing Mosaddegh and replacing him with retired General Fazlollah Zahedi, while arresting Mosaddegh and taking over other possible centers of...
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  • Fazlallah (redirect from Fazlollah)
    Fazlullah Wahidi (born 1951), Afghan social worker and politician Fazlollah Zahedi (ca. 1897–1963), Iranian general and statesman Hassan Fadlallah (born...
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    General Fazlollah Zahedi, who had a friendly relationship with Khazal, to meet with him and ostensibly convince him to travel to Tehran. General Zahedi, accompanied...
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    Asadollah Alam and Ardeshir Zahedi, son of the famed participant in the 1953 coup against Mossadegh, General Fazlollah Zahedi. On 2 March 1975, the shah...
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    April 1955 – 3 April 1957 Monarch Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Preceded by Fazlollah Zahedi Succeeded by Manouchehr Eghbal In office 12 March 1951 – 27 April 1951...
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    Iran and ending the perceived threat of communist expansion. General Fazlollah Zahedi, who led the military coup, became prime minister. The operation was...
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    Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi, who died in a plane crash in 1954, General Fazlollah Zahedi, a former Prime Minister of Iran, and assassinated Prime Minister Hassan...
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