The shah had previously fled Iran after Mossadegh and his supporters challenged Pahlavi's control.

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But Mossadegh wasn't happy that the profit from the country's primary resource -- oil -- was not staying in the country.

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Mossadegh didn't like that, and wanted a 50-50 split.

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Last March, in the most conciliatory speech to date, Mrs Albright said the United States regretted the Central Intelligence Agency's involvement in the 1953 coup that overthrew Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and brought back the Shah.

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