Word: bahktiar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coast of Spain demonstrated that the small royalist faction led by former General Bahram Aryana remains alive, but it proves little else: the ship was surrendered to France and ultimately sent to the Iranian government, after bobbing around off the port of Cadiz for a week. Shahpour Bahktiar, the French-educated politician who was jailed by the Shah but then served as his last Prime Minister, lives in exile outside Paris; he has no sizable following. Within Iran, most opposition groups now tacitly support the Mujahedin. The pro-Soviet Tudeh (Communist) Party has discredited itself for the moment by supporting...
...During the revolution, he tried to ensure that the instruments of the Shah's power-the secret police and the army -would remain intact and would merely shift allegiance to the clerics. He also tried to arrange a meeting between the Shah's last Prime Minister, Shahpour Bahktiar, and Khomeini, but the Ayatullah flatly refused...
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