Year 1950: Mohammed Reza Shah named him to the Senate in 1950
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- All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror whole source · open book
Mohammed Reza Shah named him to the Senate in 1950 and the next year persuaded Mossadegh to choose him as interior minister. Mossadegh dismissed him a few months later, after he ordered the massacre of rioters who were protesting Averell Harriman’s visit. Although Zahedi was no longer in the army, he was the president of the Retired Officers Association, which was made up mostly of men whom Mossadegh had cashiered and who were anxious for revenge.
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