I was referring to Reza Shah, Mohammad Reza's father, who led Iran for decades. Reza Shah is generally credited with being an autocrat, but who is credited with

I was referring to Reza Shah, Mohammad Reza's father, who led Iran for decades. Reza Shah is generally credited with being an autocrat, but who is credited with most of Iran's modern nation-building. Mosaddegh led the nation for two years, half of which he had emergency dictatorial powers, which he used to forcibly reallocate wealth from landowners to tenants. And due to nationalizing oil, he faced a British boycott that caused the economy to fail (and declared the British an enemy... which was unwise). If anything, his short-lived leadership was one of the most rapid and catastrophic failures of leadership of any world nation in recent history. The US led coup was only planned 8 months after the emergency powers were granted to Mosaddegh. 5 months after that, the coup was executed.