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−	Mohammed Mossadegh was a member of the Majlis (the Iranian legislature) from its beginning into the 1950's. During that time he repeatedly attempted to remove European colonial influence from Iran. In the 1950's he became Prime Minister of Iran and nationalized the Iranian oil industry, expelling the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. He later became associated with Iranian Communists (the Tudeh Party)and was removed from power by a coup (Operation Ajax) orchestrated by CIA agent Kermit Roosevelt, President Theodore Roosevelt's grandson. The coup reinstated the Shah (king) of Iran, although he later fell to the Islamic Revolution led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. [http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB28/]	+	#REDIRECT [[Mohammed Mossadegh]]