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There had been earlier warnings of the President's attitude toward unauthorized disclosures. On Feb. 5, 1979, CBS-TV carried a report that Administration officials were worried, and rightly so, about the stability of the government of then Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar in Iran. On Feb. 6, Carter called in 16 top State Department officials for what several described as a "tirade." With Vance standing by, the President told Vance's subordinates, "If there are any leaks out of your area, I am going to fire you, whether or not that's fair." Then Carter stalked...
...closing its borders for four days as officials marshaled a gigantic man hunt for fugitives accused of involvement in a military plot to overthrow the regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. The vengeance even spread abroad as a hit squad in Paris tried to assassinate former Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar, the man many Iranians believed had masterminded the July 9 coup attempt...
...attack on Bakhtiar took place Friday morning. According to French police, three armed terrorists posing as journalists tried to break into his apartment in the fashionable Paris suburb of Neuilly. They opened fire on two French police guards, killing one and wounding the other, but were unable to smash through Bakhtiar's armored door. The attackers also shot and killed a woman neighbor and exchanged gunfire with police as they tried to flee the building. The three gunmen were arrested, and police hauled in two other suspects the following day. A militant Iranian group calling itself the Guards...
...make matters worse, Iran has reportedly been inciting the Kurds in northern Iraq to rebel against Baghdad. For their part, the Iranians suspect that the current border troubles are being aggravated by Iranian exile groups, including some rebels loyal to the Shah's last Prime Minister, Shahpour Bakhtiar, who fled Iran last year and is now living in France...
...stores and, most important, the oil wells, bringing the country close to paralysis. The Shah imposed martial law, but to no avail. On Jan. 16, after weeks of daily protest parades, the Shah and his Empress flew off to exile, leaving a "regency council" that included Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar, a moderate who had spent time in the Shah's prisons. But Khomeini announced that no one ruling in the Shah's name would be acceptable, and Iran was torn by the largest riots of the entire revolution. The Ayatullah returned from Paris to a tumultuous welcome and Bakhtiar fled...