Word: amir
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...most prominent victim was Amir Abbas Hoveida, 60, Iran's Premier from 1965 to 1977. After an extended trial, he was found guilty of treason and "sowing corruption on earth." Among the other men convicted by the courts were former Foreign Minister Abbas Ali Khalatbari, several former members of the Majlis (parliament) and more than two dozen generals, including the last chief of the air force and two former heads of SAVAK, the secret police...
Major General Hassan Pakravan, a former head of SAVAK, told his trial judges: "I accepted all the responsibilities then, and I accept them now." Air Force General Amir Hussein Rabii expressed his anger at U.S. General Robert E. Huyser, the deputy commander of U.S. forces in Europe, who had been sent to Iran with the goal of persuading the military leaders not to mount a coup against the Shah's last Premier, Shahpour Bakhtiar. Huyser, said Rabii, "came and picked up the Shah like a dead mouse by its tail and threw him out." The former air force chief...
...DIED. Amir Abbas Hoveida, 60, for 13 years (1965-77) Iran's Prime Minister and the Shah's closest adviser; before a firing squad; in Tehran. Hoveida presided over Iran's "White Revolution" of land reform and modernization in the mid-1960s but was arrested in November 1978 on the Shah's orders on suspicion of corruption. An Islamic court found him guilty of corruption, heroin smuggling, spying for the U.S., and "Zionism...
...more than two hours after Bazargan's address, another kangaroo court was in session, and the prisoner was an international figure. The Komiteh, a group of activists around Khomeini who wield more effective power in Iran than the government, brought former Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveida from his cell in Qasr prison for a trial before an Islamic revolutionary court. Hoveida, who served as Prime Minister for almost 13 years under the Shah, was by far the most important official of the old regime to stand trial for his life. Ironically, he was jailed by the Shah late last...
Bill counted eight top Khomeini aides who either have lived in the U.S. or have children going to school here, and six who are "very close to France and to Western Europe." Included are two members of Khomeini's Revolutionary Council, Dr. Ibrahim Yazdi and Abbas Amir Entezam. Yazdi lived in Houston for ten years. He studied with Bill, who said, "He is a very serious, pro-American, solid kind of personality." Entezam received a degree in structural engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and "is about as American as you can possibly get," said Bill...