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...head of the Revolutionary Guards Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari - may seek to further militarize the already repressive regime. One fundamentalist group linked to the Basij paramilitary force has gone public with plans to wrestle power from Ahmadinejad by advancing its own "desired Cabinet lineup." The spokesman, Lotfali Bakhtiari, said in an interview published in the newspaper Khabar, "Our organization intends to become the government's think tank. We want to introduce our élite into the government to serve the country...
...basis for civilization. This is one of those undramatic notions whose miraculous qualities have faded with familiarity. Bronowski restores the vital and mysterious dimension with a simple tactic. He precedes his superb little essay on the domestication of wheat and animals in Jericho with a study of the Bakhtiari nomads of Iran, whose endless search for pasturage precludes the development of any culture worthy of the name. He then focuses on other nomads who domesticated only one animal - the horse - and turned it into the basis of a new and terrible art, that of warfare. Bronowski is critical of ethologists...
...mullahs (Moslem religious leaders). General Bakhtiar makes no secret of his willingness, should the Shah call on him, to replace Amini's reformist program with simple repression. Last week the general was Jeeping through the mountainous interior of Iran, renewing old friendships with his clansmen in the nomadic Bakhtiari tribe, who can supply him with clouds of hard-fighting horsemen, if needed...
...eyed, wistful Princess Soraya Esfandiari Bakhtiari, 25, divorced wife of Iran's Shah, arrived in Manhattan aboard the liner Constitution, hoping for privacy, found instead some 125 press and TV reporters at dockside to welcome her. With eager local newsmen breathlessly reporting every other step, the shapely princess shopped on Fifth Avenue, dined at East Side nightspots, at week's end sailed off for some Bermuda sun-and probably some Bermuda privacy as well...
...word came that Soraya's father, Iran's Ambassador to West Germany, had broken his leg in a fall, Soraya threw on a mink coat and, with her mother, her Skye terrier and 42 pieces of luggage, set off for Cologne. Two days later her uncle, Assad Bakhtiari, arrived from Teheran as an emissary of the 38-year-old Shah, held a three-hour bargaining session with Soraya and her parents in a carnation-filled embassy room dominated by a huge oil painting of the Shah. His reported offer: unless Soraya agreed to the Shah's taking...