Word: bazargan
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...Bazargan lectures his mentor, and women march for their rights...
...Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, 78, and Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan, 71, had another showdown last week. Following days of equal-rights demonstrations by thousands of angry Iranian women and more secret trials that resulted in summary executions, Bazargan took to the air waves for an hourlong television and radio address that spared no one, least of all Khomeini, the acknowledged leader of the Iranian revolution. The Prime Minister denounced the secret trials as "unreligious and inhuman," charging that they made the new government appear "shameful" to the rest of the world. Describing his sessions in Qum with the Ayatullah, Bazargan said...
Rather like a schoolmaster dressing down unruly students, Bazargan dismissed the women's demonstrations as a lot of fuss over "a one-word issue" (the chador, or all-enveloping veil), and admonished students to go back to school and factory workers to stop their agitation. In an emotional appeal for a return to national sanity, Bazargan said, "We have passed a number of mountains, but we still have not reached the promised land...
...more than two hours after Bazargan's address, another kangaroo court was in session, and the prisoner was an international figure. The Komiteh, a group of activists around Khomeini who wield more effective power in Iran than the government, brought former Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveida from his cell in Qasr prison for a trial before an Islamic revolutionary court. Hoveida, who served as Prime Minister for almost 13 years under the Shah, was by far the most important official of the old regime to stand trial for his life. Ironically, he was jailed by the Shah late last...
...Komiteh's militia, the so-called Islamic Guard, will be melded into a secular national guard commanded by a council headed by Deputy Prime Minister Ibrahim Yazdi, Khomeini's most ardent backer in the Bazargan government...