Mohammad Mosaddegh ( Persian : محمد مصدق , IPA: ⓘ ; 16 June 1882 – 5 March 1967) was an Iranian politician, author, and lawyer who served as the 30th Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953, elected by the 16th Majlis . He was a member of the Iranian parliament from 1923 , and served through a contentious 1952 election into the 17th Iranian Majlis , until his government was overthrown in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état aided by the intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom ( MI6 ) and the United States ( CIA ), led by Kermit Roosevelt Jr. His National Front was suppressed from the 1954 election .