Rare photos of Fazlollah Zahedi

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At the behest of the British and American governments, the persian military carried out a coup d’état which put an end to Mossadeq’s rule and the era of constitutional monarchy and replaced it by direct rule of the Shah. The newly formed CIA, along with the British intelligence agency MI6, took an active role in the developments, terming their involvement Operation Ajax.

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