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...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 asked for leniency on the grounds that he had refused orders from Bakhtiar to bomb an arsenal in Tehran that had been overrun by demonstrators...
During the February revolt against the hapless government of Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar, the Kurds took advantage of the chaotic situation to rearm. They stormed army garrisons in northern Iran, seizing huge quantities of weapons. The latest outbreak apparently began over the appropriation by the army garrison in Sanandaj of a large portion of the city's flour supply, as well as the bulk of the town's bread. Feelings among the city's population, which is mostly Sunni Muslim, were already running high because the local revolutionary courts were dominated by Shi'ites loyal...
...continued to support a succession of losers. We supported the Shah to the absolute last possible moment. The only thing we didn't do for him is send troops. Then when his people drove him from the country, we switched to another loser. Anyone could see that [Shahpour] Bakhtiar [whom the Shah named Prime Minister before he left Iran] was a loser. For a little more than a month, Bakhtiar played the game of losing, with us patting him on the back and providing him with support. Bakhtiar predictably is gone down the pipe also." Bill felt that...
...Washington, State Department officials, sifting reports of divided political authority and the foundering Iranian economy, wondered if Bazargan's brittle government would soon follow that of Shahpour Bakhtiar into oblivion. Reduced to defensively guarding American interests in Iran rather than actively buttressing Bazargan, U.S. officials were further alarmed by an incident in which a CIA electronic eavesdropping station near the Soviet border was invaded by rebels last week. First reports indicated that mojahedeen guerrillas had assaulted the station, seizing 20 technicians and sophisticated electronic equipment used to monitor Soviet missile tests. It later turned out that local citizens, seeking...
...months of the demonstrations that brought down the Shah and then Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar, Is lam performed that unifying function. Several different revolutions coalesced then; now they are subdividing again. The century's earlier revolutionary his tory may explain the components. The revolutions of the '20s and '30s were ei ther rebellions of redemptionists (some times fascists, as in Germany and Italy) intent on rescuing old native virtues from alien influences, or of Communists, or of nationalists (in Ireland, for example). Elements of all three have been at work in Iran. But now the contradictions...