1951 – 1953 Muḥammad Moṣaddeq prime minister of Iran

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Munīf (1933 – 2004, Jordan / Saudi Arabia) – Sibāq al-Masāfāt al-Ṭawīla: Riḥla ilā al-Sharq (‘The Marathon: a journey to the east’, 1979). Set in Iran during the Moṣaddeq period (although both not mentioned by name), a British agent narrates the decline of British and the rise of American imperialism (reference). The agent, Peter, works disguised as an employee of the Iranian oil company and uses several accomplices and pawns for his intelligence work of which the most important is Ashraf, a young Iranian of the new generation who were educated in the West. The novel traces the competition between the declining colonial power and the ascending empire, played out under the watchful eye of an un-named but ever-present Soviet menace to the north (reference).

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