Word: mossadeq
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...three years, Mossadeq studied finance and political science in Paris. He learned about Western ideas, often in precariously oversimplified form. He still remembers a debate from his student days on the question: "What Makes a Man a Socialist?" The conclusion (which he applies to Communism today) : "Poverty...
Letters in Blood. Later, Mossadeq got a law doctorate in Switzerland, and in 1916 the young lawyer was appointed Under Secretary of Finance. With characteristic energy and total lack of tact, he tried summarily to dismiss hundreds of do-nothing officeholders. Some of them wrote him threatening letters in blood. He was fired, but in 1919 Mossadeq jumped up again. He founded his political reputation by attacking the British (who had just forced the Persian government to sign a treaty making the country virtually a protectorate). He was exiled again; in 1920 he was back as governor of a province...
...Reza Khan, a onetime army sergeant who with British help had become Iran's virtual dictator, proclaimed himself Shah. "I am against it. It is contrary to law," Mossadeq shrieked in Parliament, and he was the only prominent man in Iran with the courage...
With immense, if often misdirected energy, the new Shah tried to modernize an extraordinarily backward country (paper money was not introduced until 1931). But Mossadeq, opposed to his strong-arm methods, fought him at every turn...
...complaining that the elections were rigged (they were), Mossadeq retired to his farm holdings in Ahmabad, west of Teheran, stayed out of politics for 13 years. His health grew worse. In 1930 he went to Berlin for medical treatment, also consulted a psychiatrist about his worsening nervous condition. The psychiatrist was greatly interested in this odd case, but Mossadeq refused to continue seeing...