Zahedi, Fazlollah

Zahedi, Fazlollah

▪ prime minister of Iran
also spelled  Faḍl Allāh Zāhidī 
born 1897, Iran
died September 2, 1963, Geneva, Switzerland

      Iranian army officer and politician who was prime minister of Iran from 1953 to 1955.

      Zahedi early embarked on a military career, graduating from the Iranian military academy in 1916. He joined the Persian Cossack Brigade and at age 25—as a brigadier general—distinguished himself by quelling a Kurdish revolt in western Iran. Three years later he suppressed an Arab autonomy movement headed by the British-sponsored sheikh, Khazʿal Khan, in Khūzestān. Soon thereafter, Reza Shah Pahlavi appointed him military governor of Khūzestān and Eṣfahān provinces, a post he held until September 1942, when British and Soviet forces occupied Iran. British military authorities suspected Zahedi of plotting with the Germans, and he was interned in Palestine, returning to Iran in 1945. In November 1949 he was appointed military governor and chief of police of Tehrān. During that time he also became a member of the newly created senate.

      After the assassination of Prime Minister Ali Razmara (Razmara, Ali) in 1951, Zahedi was named minister of the interior in the cabinet of the new premier, Husayn Ala, a post he kept in the first cabinet of Mohammad Mosaddeq (Mosaddeq, Mohammad). Disagreeing with Mosaddeq's policy, Zahedi resigned in December 1951 and in October 1952 was accused by the prime minister of plotting a coup. In May 1953 Zahedi took refuge in the Majles (parliament), where he was protected by the speaker, Ayatollah Abu al-Qasim Kashani. After Kashani lost his office in July 1953, Zahedi briefly left Iran. The escalating power struggle between Mosaddeq and Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi culminated on August 16, 1953, when the shah fled Iran. Prior to his departure, however, the shah—at the urging of representatives of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency—appointed Zahedi prime minister to replace Mosaddeq. On August 19 forces led by Zahedi overthrew Mosaddeq's government, assumed effective power, and called the shah back. The shah, worried that the popular army officer might pose a threat to his own position, pushed Zahedi from office in 1955, sending him to serve as ambassador to the United Nations at its European headquarters in Geneva (1963).

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