Mohammad Mosaddegh (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 States’ Central Intelligence Agency and the United Kingdom’s MI6.
Colonel Mohammad Taqi-Khan Pessian (1892 – 3 October 1921), also spelled as Pesyan and Pesseyan, was an Iranian gendarme and pilot who formed and lead the short-lived Autonomous Government of Khorasan. He was killed in a battle with forces sent by Ahmad Qavam, the prime minister at the time.
