Page "Mohammad Mosaddegh" Paragraph 25

Still enormously popular in late 1951, Mosaddegh called elections.

His base of support was in urban areas and not in the provinces.

This fact was reflected in the rejection of Mosaddegh's bill for electoral reform ( which no longer disqualified illiterates from electoral participation ) by the conservative bloc, on the grounds that it would " unjustly discriminate patriots who had been voting for the last forty years ".