Mossadegh Project
Mohammad Mossadegh was born June 16, 1882 in Tehran. His father, Mirza Hedayat Ashtiani, was Iran's Finance Minister, and his mother, Najm al-Saltaneh, was closely related to the ruling Qajar dynasty. He lost his father at age 10 after which the monarch Nasir al-Din Shah gave him the title "Mossadegh al-Saltaneh". He was left to be raised by his mother, an uncommonly socially conscious woman who once told him: "A person's worth in society is dependent on how much one endures for the sake of the people".
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