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 *Appointed.    has gone off topic and expressed a strong POV with claims that the leaders of Israel, Turkey, and Iraq are not elected, but Mossadegh was (""possibly the entire Middle East's....one and only democratically elected head of state""); attacks on ""Western"" foreign policy generally; Google Books searches; and statements suggesting that political speeches should be treated as undisputed truth (doubting that ""requires belief in a conspiracy which goes up all the way to the president of the United States"").  Since nobody challenges 's central pointthat Mossadegh was the only candidatethis dispute is really about what wording best conveys that fact to the reader.  And the answer seems self-evident to me.  "