Mossadegh was sentenced to three years of solitary confinement in 1953 and remained under house arrest until his death in 1967.

The U.S.-British plot to overthrow him served as a rallying point for the 1979 revolution that ousted the Shah, and Mossadegh remains a popular figure in Iran today despite his secularist politics.

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