Mohammad Mosaddegh

Born in Tehran, Mosaddegh — born Mirza Mohammad-Khan Mossadegh-ol-Saltaneh — studied finance and law in France and then Switzerland, taking a doctorate in law at the University of Neuchâtel with a thesis on wills in Islamic law and the Shia school; the Persian article notes that he was the first Iranian to hold a doctorate in law. He was elected to the Iranian parliament in 1923 and held ministerial and provincial posts before his premiership. ^{1 2}

As prime minister he led the nationalisation of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. In August 1953 he was overthrown in a coup backed by the United States and Britain, tried before a military court, imprisoned and then held under house arrest at Ahmadabad for the rest of his life. ^{1 3}

He died at Najmieh Hospital in Tehran on 5 March 1967 — the Persian article gives 14 Esfand 1345 — and was buried at Ahmadabad. ^{2 4}

His faith is recorded as unknown, with one remarkable attestation preserved. The Persian article quotes, from the published record of his military trial, his declaration at the trial's seventeenth session in November 1953, made while emphasising his religious beliefs: that he confessed himself a Muslim and a Twelver Shia, whose path was the path of Husayn. A first-person self-declaration naming the branch is strong evidence of its kind, but it reaches us through a single text — one attestation chain — and no other edition carries it; Wikidata gives only Shia Islam in general, which names no branch. One source family short of the bar, the record stays unknown with the declaration preserved in full on the person record. ^{2 4}

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