WI the coup against Mossadegh fail

What if Mossadegh discovered the coup months before it got into motion and stoped it? What could have happened under such circunstances?
 
British Intelligence looks down its noses at it's American cousins shaking their head thinking if you want something done right . . .
 
Was Mossadegh's land reform critically different from the Shah's White Revolution?
If not, he could cause the same effects IOTL, with his National Front other than the Shah at the receiving end of all social grievances.

IOTL, the Shah gave farmland plots to the peasants, but their new small farms could not afford extensive irrigation system necessary under the climate condition of Iran, so they were out-competed by larger landlords, went broke, lost their lands, and flocked to large cities like Tehran. In the large cities, those poor and angry slum dwellers now were tempted by radical clerks, the rest was history.
 
Was Mossadegh's land reform critically different from the Shah's White Revolution?
If not, he could cause the same effects IOTL, with his National Front other than the Shah at the receiving end of all social grievances.

IOTL, the Shah gave farmland plots to the peasants, but their new small farms could not afford extensive irrigation system necessary under the climate condition of Iran, so they were out-competed by larger landlords, went broke, lost their lands, and flocked to large cities like Tehran. In the large cities, those poor and angry slum dwellers now were tempted by radical clerks, the rest was history.

Difference is that the Shah doesn't have as much nationalistic cred though...
 
The key to the coup's success was Mossadegh's dissolving Parliament and removing all authority from the Shah. I don't think a coup would be attempted without that and with it...honestly, I don't think he had the popular support to survive, not amidst the trade war with the British. People tend to forget that this wasn't your usual case of the CIA bribing generals to shove a milquetoast social democrat off a balcony, Mossadegh had some serious problems with or without Western meddling.
 
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