"Prior to the events of the 1953 coup d’état, Khatibi published a cartoon in Haji Baba depicting the head of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi on a camel to be slaughtered, being reluctantly pulled by the nationalist Prime Minister, Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh. This cartoon reflected Mossadegh’s prominence and the public’s support in his push for the nationalisation of Iran’s oil. After the coup d’état, Mossadegh was imprisoned and the Shah returned as the de facto leader. "

Just proves what a nut head and confused fellow he was ...

The Shah was not de Facto Leader of Iran he WAS the head of State and Monarch of the country.

To have called for the Shah's Head was not only treason but also proved that this gentleman got his priorities wrong. The Shah never opposed the nationalization of Iran's oil quite the contrary. He appointed ( and not elected) Mossadegh who then took upon himself to name dubious ministers in a power struggle against the Shah whose Dynasty's legitimacy he never entirely recongized due to his own loyal Qajar roots. 

This gentleman very much like Mossadegh's PM betrayed Iran by calling for the Shah's head and forcing him out of the country. One wonders for what crime ? The Shah had liberated Azerbaijan from the Soviet Occupation, accepted a symbolic constitutional role imposed on him not by popular will but as the result of the illegal occupation of the country by the Allies during WWII.

What this gentleman pretended not to understand was that In a nation like Iran with more than 25 Centuries of royal tradition best embodied in Persian Literature like the Shahnameh, that the Monarch was the symbol of National Unity. To Attack him was to attack not just the State but the very nature of Iranian Nationalism.

Clearly Iran's so called intelligentsia at the time was out of touch with the reality of the world and thought they were above judgement all in the name of vague understanding of the very concept of "democracy" which they claimed to want to implement in the country when the real debate in 1953 was not the lack of "democracy" but the nationalization of Oil. 

These ANN TELECTUALS were the real cause of the evergrown intellectual crisis in Iran which endures to this day. A Confusion of what is the rule of Law, what is a Social Contract, what allows the implementation of a system of checks and balances in ways that benefits the nation but also allows the state to operate in the interests of the country at large. 

None of these considerations, let alone the ways of implementing them were ever thought out through by Iran's deemed "thinkers".

Hence why 2 decades later they ended up making another poor choice only to come and disingenuously claim that their "revolution was highjacked" ...