1. Flight to Baghdad after failed coup

    · Baghdad, Iraq

    Flight to Baghdad after failed coup
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    After the first attempt to remove Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh failed, the shah fled Iran to Baghdad. The surrounding text dates the failed coup attempt to August 1953; the source does not give a separate arrival day in Baghdad.

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