When the coup initially appeared to have failed, the shah fled to Baghdad and on to Italy. general helped convince him to back the coup. Ultimately, his twin sister, Princess Ashraf, and a U.S.
Embassy in Tehran warned in February 1953.
“His inability to take decisions coupled with his tendency to interfere in political life has on occasions been (a) disruptive influence,” the U.S. The Western plotters soon found one of their biggest problems to be the shah himself. documents show the CIA boasting that it had both leading security officials in its pocket, as well as hopes it could use the “powerfully influential clergy” within Shiite Iran to back the coup. Out of these fears came TPAJAX, a CIA-backed coup plot to overthrow Mossadegh.
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