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Mosaddegh was born to a prominent Persian family of high officials in capital on 16 June 1882; his father, Mirza Hideyatu’llah Ashtiani, was a finance minister under the Qajar dynasty, and his mother, Princess Malek Taj Najm-es-Saltaneh, was the granddaughter of the reformist Qajar prince Abbas Mirza, and a great granddaughter of Fath-Ali Shah Qajar.
