WI: Operation Ajax fails, Mosaddegh assassinated later by Fedayeen?

Speculation over the butterflies that come out from Operation Ajax's failure or success are numerous, but I want to explore a different line of questioning.

Say for whatever reason, Operation Ajax fails and Mosaddegh consolidates his power as head of Tudeh. One year later however, he is assassinated by the rightist Fada'iyan-e Islam. What happens then? Does the Shah return or stay? What of Ali Reza I?
 
Ajax did fail. Iran collapsed into chaos, and within a few days you had people marching in the street demanding Mossadegh be removed from power. The communists turned against Mossadegh pretty rapidly after the coup failed. Mossadegh was removed from power by protests that happened AFTER Ajax was unsuccessful.
 
Ajax did fail. Iran collapsed into chaos, and within a few days you had people marching in the street demanding Mossadegh be removed from power. The communists turned against Mossadegh pretty rapidly after the coup failed. Mossadegh was removed from power by protests that happened AFTER Ajax was unsuccessful.
Wait, weren't the riots actually instigated by the CIA precisely as part of Operation Ajax?
 
Wait, weren't the riots actually instigated by the CIA precisely as part of Operation Ajax?
To some degree, yes, but there was also a lot of actual discontent with Mossadegh by the time Ajax happened. He had become increasingly authoritarian - he'd halted the counting of votes in the parliamentary election immediately after a quorum was reached so that his faction would make up the majority and the rest of the seats would be vacant, he'd gotten the Parliament to give him vast emergency powers, and then he had a blatantly unconstitutional referendum held on dissolving Parliament where there was no secret ballot, people went to separate voting booths to vote "yes" or "no," and people who went to vote for the "no" option had to run a gauntlet of intimidating signs saying things like "Only Traitors Vote For Non-Dissolution". The referendum "passed" with 99% in favor. The sparks for Mossadegh's overthrow were already there, the CIA simply lit the match.
 
Okaaay….

Alternate question, what if AJAX was simply scrubbed entirely and the Fedayeen simply killed Mosaddegh themselves? Who takes control instead of Zahedi? What happens to the Shah?
 
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