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According to Ervand Abrahamian: " Realizing that the opposition would take the vast majority of the provincial seats, Mosaddegh stopped the voting as soon as 79 deputies – just enough to form a parliamentary quorum — had been elected.
" An alternative account is offered by Stephen Kinzer.
Beginning in the early 1950s under the guidance of C. M.
Woodhouse, chief of the British intelligence station in Tehran, Britain's covert operations network had funneled roughly £ 10, 000 per month to the Rashidian brothers ( two of Iran's most influential royalists ) in the hope of buying off, according to CIA estimates, " the armed forces, the Majlis ( Iranian parliament ), religious leaders, the press, street gangs, politicians and other influential figures ".
Thus, in his statement asserting electoral manipulation by " foreign agents ", Mosaddegh suspended the elections.
His National Front party had made up 30 of the 79 deputies elected.
Yet none of those present vetoed the statement, and the elections were postponed indefinitely.
The 17th Majlis convened on February 1952.

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