that he was and supported him. In 1953, the American government had decided that he was not and helped in his overthrow.
             The nationalist group under Mossadeq posed the most serious threat to the Shah during the early years of his reign, a period when the inexperienced ruler was gaining power and knowledge of how to rule. Mossadeq was a Western-educated aristocrat who had been in 1925 one of the few opponents of the creation of the Pahlavi dynasty. In 1949 he formed the National Front, a reformist organizat
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