Word: bakhtiar
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...Sunday more than 200 people had died. At that point, the supreme army command announced its neutrality in the country's political dispute and ordered the troops back to their barracks. Support by the military was the only thing propping up the regime of embattled Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar. He had no choice except to resign, thereby clearing the way for Khomeini to transform Iran into an Islamic republic. The Ayatullah issued a statement claiming that "victory is near...
Shah did not come from God," he argued, "but from the people, and the people have taken it back." He warned that the military faced "the revenge of God" if it did not abandon Bakhtiar's government...
...Muhammad, 50, a surgeon, spent part of his time operating, part on the telephone attempting to reach his good friend Shahpour Bakhtiar in an effort to halt the shooting. Muhammad was furious at the extent and kinds of injuries he had been treating. "If they do not stop this," he predicted, "everyone will be Communist. We have been fighting the Communists for 20 years. Now all of us in my profession are nationalist, independent and pro-Khomeini. They must deal with...
Muhammad finally got through to one of Bakhtiar's aides. Casualties were still rolling through the emergency-room door as he banged down the telephone. "They said only that these people were trying to take army headquarters. With what? Their bare hands?" He sighed as he selected a scalpel and went back to work. "They are pushing the people to take arms. Next I shall be operating on soldiers killed or wounded by the friends of the people who died under my care today...
...friendship between the American people and the Iranian people will grow only if our government refrains from condoning a military coup as a solution to popular opposition to the Bakhtiar government. In this regard, the American government should publicly state that such an alternative, requiring as it would the use of American supplied arms and aircraft, is unacceptable and not in the interest of either our own or the Iranian people. It should state further that such a government could not and would not receive recognition by this country...