Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protest was the policies of Iran's supreme ruler, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Some carried signs demanding his ouster. Others called for a return of long denied civil and political liberties and the enforcement of Islamic laws. A few even demanded the legalization of the Tudeh, Iran's outlawed Communist party. The crowd, at times numbering more than 100,000, was a colorful, sometimes incongruous cross section of Iranian society: dissident students in jeans; women shrouded in the black chador, the traditional head-to-foot veil; peasants and merchants; and most important the bearded, black-robed Muslim mullahs, the religious...
...strike at the most vulnerable point, and that point is the Persian Gulf. In effect, you rattle the Shah's bird cage. You rattle it hard. This is what they are doing. But let's not get dishonest. Let's not also say that everybody is a Communist. That's not necessarily true. This is power politics we're playing here today. This is not ideology...
...Shah nonetheless believes that Iran's present turmoil can be attributed to a Communist conspiracy, which he feels has always been at the root of his troubles. In a press conference last month he repeated that argument. "Today," he declared, "the plot is the same, and I have a great deal of information that shows that the rioters receive orders from the Communists." Such is the level of concern in the Shah's regime that there is even talk in high circles of another possible villain: the CIA, which is being accused of deliberately infiltrating the opposition so that...
Asked if he foresees any danger of a Communist takeover, Sharietmadari said: "I am afraid that if the situation worsens, and it could, a foreign power will interfere. If the government would heed our warning, there would be no danger of Communism. If it does not, then I am afraid it will be the Communists' gain...
...feels he cannot permit the legalization of the Tudeh, or Communist, Party. This question should be related to our geographic position. We have to ask ourselves whether our geographic position will permit this or that [party or political organization. While the Shah is reluctant to spell out what he means on the record, interviews in Tehran make clear that he is concerned that an aboveground Tudeh would serve as a Trojan horse for the Soviet Union, and the Shah is reliably reported to have worried privately that in some future political crisis, legalized Iranian Communists might seek...