The Trial of Mohammad Mossadegh

The trial proceedings were a tense back-and-forth between Mossadegh’s impassioned tirades and the court's attempts to maintain control. He refused to recognize their authority and continued to call out the illegality of the coup and the charges against him. The prosecution, in turn, labeled him a traitor and a fanatic who had brought the country to the brink of chaos. The trial was less about a legal argument and more about a clash of political narratives: one of an old order reasserting its power, and the other of a defeated but unbroken national hero.