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...fissures appeared shortly after the collapse, on Sunday, Feb. 11, of the 45-day-old government of Shahpour Bakhtiar, who had been appointed Prime Minister by the Shah. Following a bloody weekend of fighting between units of the Imperial Guard and pro-Khomeini airmen and armed civilians at Doshan Tappeh airbase in eastern Tehran, the army supreme command abruptly announced that it would withdraw its troops and give "full support to the wishes of the people." The army had been Bakhtiar's last prop; he resigned, as did the members of parliament...
...Bazargan's major problems is what to do with officials identified with the old regime. He and ex-Prime Minister Bakhtiar are longtime friends and colleagues in opposition to the Shah. For a while last week, Bazargan saw to it that Bakhtiar was given a secret refuge in Tehran. But after the British Broadcasting Corporation reported that he was aiding the ousted Prime Minister, Bazargan came under such strong pressure from pro-Khomeini forces that he had to surrender custody of Bakhtiar. Many educated Iranians feel that Bakhtiar was acting out of a sense of patriotic duty in accepting...
Whether or not Bakhtiar escapes death, others certainly will be subjected to the harsh justice of the revolution. Early last week Iran television presented interviews with some of the more notorious leaders of the Shah's regime. Three nights before he was executed, General Nematollah Nassiri, looking like a frightened rabbit, was interrogated by two local reporters. When he failed to respond fast enough to a question about who had ordered SAVAK to torture its prisoners, a masked militiaman prodded him and whispered, "Say the Shah, say the Shah." Nassiri wore a bandage on his head and talked...
Trouble between the mojahedeen and the fedayeen broke out last week almost as soon as the Bakhtiar government fell. Both groups claimed responsibility for maintaining security, and there were minor clashes at various government ministries in Tehran. On Wednesday the fedayeen announced a five-point program for establishing a true "people's army" and a "revolutionary council," a plan that would obviously increase their voice in the new government. In Tabriz, the mojahedeen and the fedayeen were reportedly dividing up the city and digging trenches for defense, much as the Palestinian fedayeen and the Christian phalangists did in Beirut...
...Prime Minister Bakhtiar: He has obtained his position legally. We are working for the position he holds, not for the person who holds it. What will happen to Bakhtiar, we don't know...