Asadollah Rashidian (also Asodollah Rashidian) was an Iranian national who played a critical role in the 1953 overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh. He was a principal covert agent of the British Secret Intelligence Service and through him the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was able to convince the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, to endorse the operation .
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| - Asadollah Rashidian (also Asodollah Rashidian) was an Iranian national who played a critical role in the 1953 overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh. He was a principal covert agent of the British Secret Intelligence Service and through him the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was able to convince the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, to endorse the operation . Rashidian's main contributions to the operation were his encouragement of the Shah's sister, Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, to obtain her brother's approval of the plan, and acting as a liaison between the SIS/CIA team and the Shah once the operation was underway. (en)
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| - Asadollah Rashidian (also Asodollah Rashidian) was an Iranian national who played a critical role in the 1953 overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh. He was a principal covert agent of the British Secret Intelligence Service and through him the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was able to convince the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, to endorse the operation . (en)
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