Kammala wannan jumla: Mohammad Reza ya hau mulki a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na II bayan mamayewar Anglo-Soviet ya tilasta mahaifinsa, Reza Shah Pahlavi ya yi murabus. A lokacin mulkin Mohammad Reza, Firayim Ministan Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh ya ba da ɗan gajeren lokaci ga masana'antar mai mallakar Burtaniya har zuwa lokacin da aka ba da umarnin.
Burtaniya da Amurka sun goyi bayan juyin mulkin da ya sauke Mosaddegh kuma ya dawo da kamfanonin mai na kasashen waje a karkashin Yarjejeniyar Consortium na 1954.