IRAN's DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION

Iran has been going through successive revolutions since the Constitutional Revolution of the early 1900s that culminated in its first elected parliament and limited the monarchy's absolute power. However, foreign interference and successive coups robbed Iranians of the chance to establish a democratic legacy: The democratic government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in the 1950s was short-lived. The ouster of the nationalist Prime Minister Mosaddegh by a CIA/MI6 engineered coup in 1953 left Iran in