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The oil industry nationalized a holiday
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In 1951 Iran's Parliament voted to nationalize the oil industry
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Britain initiated the plot
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An unexpected development pushed the plot forward
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1 million dollars got approved to be used to bring Mosaddeq down
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The agency sent Doctor Wilber to Cyprus to meet Norman Darbyshire
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President Eisenhower finally signed off on the plan
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Another British agency gained Ashraf access
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The Shah bolted to Baghdad
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Shah announces that he signed the decrees, one dismissing Mosaddeq
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The Shah and the Queen Soraya arrive in Rome
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CIA arranged a meeting for General Zahedi, other key Iranian agents, and army officers. They agreed to start a counter attack, and sent a leading cleric from Tehram to the holy city of Qom to try and orchestrate a call for a holy way against communism.
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Mr.Love wrote in a paper that he "was responsible, in an impromptu sort of way, for speeding the final victory of the royalists"
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He left The New York Times
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Dr. Mosaddeq died from throat cancer
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When the revolution brought the clerics to power in 1979, anti-shah nationalists tried to revive Dr. Mosaddeq's memory.
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Donald Wilber died at the age of 89
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In campaigns for local elections in February 1999 and parliamentary elections a year later, reformists advertising made use of Dr. Mosaddeq's sad, elongated face
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In August, Parliament approved a bill to abolish a holiday marking the nationalization of the oil industry in 1951
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Legislators were forced to reinstate the holiday marking the nationalization of the oil industry