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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.
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.
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