Ali Shayegan ( Persian : علی شایگان , romanized : ʿAli Šāygān ; March 1, 1903 – May 15, 1981), was an Iranian politician and an opponent of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and lived in political exile in New York and New Jersey from 1958. Shayegan, one of the leaders of the National Front of Iran, was also a Member of Parliament , the Minister of Education and a close aide to Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh , whose government was overthrown by army officers loyal to the Shah in 1953 in a coup d'état orchestrated by the CIA . Following the coup, Hossein Fatemi, also a leader in the National Front and close associate of Shayegan was executed. Shayegan was initially sentenced to life imprisonment and then to ten years. After three years he was exiled to Europe and later came to America. He organized the Iranian National Front in Exile in New York in the late 1950s and helped in the formation of the Confederation of Iranian Students .