Mossadegh Partisan Wins Over Kashani
July 1, 1953 — United Press [UP]
July 1, 1953 — United Press [UP]
| The Mossadegh Project | November 3, 2015 |
A wire report on the election of Dr. Abdollah Moazzami as Majles (Parliament) Speaker.
Mossadegh Backer Is Chosen
Speaker Of Iran Parliament
TEHRAN, Iran (UP)—Abdullah Moazzami, a supporter of Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, was elected speaker of Parliament today in place of Seyed Kashani, a leading critic of the Mossadegh regime.
Moazzami was elected by a vote of 41 to 31, with one abstention. A bare majority of the 136-member Majlis (lower house) participated in the election.
A few hours earlier, Kashani—who is a Moslem priest as well as a politician—had declared that Mossadegh will be condemned to death “if he continues trying to set up a dictatorship.”
Kashani, [Ayatollah Seyed Abolghassem Kashani] a persistent opponent of Mossadegh’s demands for total power, charged that the premier has been intimidating deputies in an effort to dissolve parliament.
Alternative titles:
Iranian Speaker Is Elected Today
Mossadegh Backer Named Speaker Of Parliament
Mossadegh Supporter Is Speaker of Parliament
Mossadegh Supporter Heads Iran Parliament
Mossadegh Supporter Elected Speaker
Mossadegh’s Man Named to High Post
Mossadegh’s Man Heads Parliament
Related links:
Iran Votes For Mossadegh — The Times Record, February 1, 1952
IRAN: Another Round — TIME magazine, February 18, 1952
Iranian Regime Faces New Threat; Voters Can Decide — Buffalo Courier-Express, Feb. 5, 1954
MOSSADEGH t-shirts — “If I sit silently, I have sinned”
