Security Forces Prevent People from Visiting Mohammad Mossadegh’s Grave

On the anniversary of the death of Mohammad Mossadegh, Iran’s former prime minister, security forces prevented people from visiting his grave.

Hossein Mousavian, head of the central council of the Fifth National Front in Ahmad Abad, said that security personnel prevented people from reaching Dr. Mossadegh’s grave and turned back their buses.

Mousevian described Mossadegh as a figure who not only nationalized oil but, according to him, “revived the pride and character of our Iran and recorded it in history.”

The head of the central council of the Fifth National Front said: “Throughout all the years after the coup, the former despotic and dictatorial government feared Mossadegh’s name and it should not be mentioned anywhere, and today too, a government that is authoritarian and does not believe in freedoms and has followed in the footsteps of the previous dictatorial regime, continues to behave in the same manner and does not allow Dr. Mossadegh’s devotees to place a flower on his grave on the anniversary of his death and recite a prayer.”

Mohammad Mossadegh, the thirty-fifth Prime Minister of Iran, died in exile on March 5, 1967.

Source: Radio Farda