Word: bazargan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bazargan aims to increase Iran's oil production from its current rate of 700,000 bbl. a day, which is barely enough to provide for the country's needs, to 3.5 million bbl. in a few months. Though that is scarcely more than half Iran's pre-revolution output, it is a reasonably ambitious target, especially since the country's oilworkers have strong leftist sentiments...
Another task Bazargan faces is securing for his provisional regime the power still held by the shadowy Islamic Revolutionary Council. This secretive group, which is believed to be composed of high-ranking Shi'ite leaders and a few civilians and led by Khomeini, amounts to a parallel government, one that has not always bothered to let Bazargan know what it is doing. The Prime Minister was embarrassed last week to learn that without his knowledge, four more of the Shah's generals had been executed after being convicted in a secret tribunal authorized by the council. Worse...
...government, declared Foreign Minister Karim Sanjabi, would press for the Shah's extradition "until there is no place he can go except for Israel or South Africa." Indeed, the Shah's sojourn in Morocco may soon end. Last week his host, King Hassan II, formally recognized the Bazargan government. The crew of the Shah's royal 707 jet flew the plane, complete with its gold-plated bathroom fixtures, back to Iran. "If anyone offers you a job, take it," the gloomy monarch reportedly advised his dwindling entourage last week...
Though it was scarcely any comfort for the Shah, a number of observers in Middle Eastern capitals now were beginning to wonder about the life expectancy of the Bazargan government. In Cairo, Egyptian officials were speculating that the Tehran regime might hang on for six months, but then would be toppled by leftists. Only time and events will tell whether Iranians can be persuaded that their new rulers have indeed "saved Iran...
...embassy had survived. He had been spirited away from the hospital by leftists and turned over to the Komiteh, an offshoot of Ayatullah Khomeini's Islamic Revolutionary Council. Early efforts by the embassy to arrange Kraus' release were unsuccessful because the Komiteh did not inform the Bazargan government that it had him in custody. Before long, the Kraus case reached Jimmy Carter's attention. The White House pressed hard for information on Kraus, and even got the French government to bring its contacts with Khomeini to bear...