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The Legacy of Dr. Mohammad Mosaddeq

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2024

Fariba Amini
Fariba Amini*
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Independent Scholar and Journalist, Newark, DE, USA
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“Yes, my sin—my greater sin and even my greatest sin is that I nationalized Iran's oil industry and discarded the system of political and economic exploitation by the world's greatest empire. This at the cost to myself, my family; and at the risk of losing my life, my honor, and my property.” — Mohammad Mosaddeq at his tribunal, December 1953

In 2005, on a trip to Iran, I decided to go to Ahmadabad and take a video of the place. I had many reasons for doing so. One was for my own gratification; another was to honor my father. My father, Nosratollah Amini, was Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq's personal attorney, and the only one besides the immediate family who had permission to visit him during his years of house arrest from 1956 until his death in 1967. Even Jawaharlal Nehru of India, who during a visit to Iran had asked to see him, was dissuaded from doing so. He was told that Mosaddeq was sick, which was not true.

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Roundtable: Mossadeq's Ouster at 70 – Legacies and Memories
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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , May 2024 , pp. 257 - 260
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Copyright © Fariba Amini, 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press

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References

1 Fariba Amini, Conversations with My Father: Nosratollah Amini,” Iranian.com, 27 February 2007, http://www.iranian.com/FaribaAmini/2007/February/Father/index.html. My visit will be featured in a forthcoming documentary I am producing, Ahmadabad: The Life and Times of Mohammad Mosaddeq in Internal Exile, to be released in fall 2024.

2 Interview of Mr. Takrousta by the author, 2005, in Ahmadabad, Iran.

3 Azadi Quarterly Review, 26/27 (2001): 214–18.

4 Lior Sternfeld, “Iran Days in Egypt: Mossadeq's Visit to Cairo in 1951,” British Journal of Middle East Studies 43, no. 1 (2016): 1–20.

5 Amini, Fariba, ed., Nameha'i az Ahmad Abad, 1335–1345 (Washington, DC: Press Xpress, 2004)Google Scholar.