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Agents Inside. The plan was worthy of the Moscow-trained coup d'état experts who prepared it, but for one fatal flaw: Major General Farhat Dadsetan, Teheran's smart military governor, knew all about it from his secret agents in the Resistance. He summoned his commanders, told them to avoid gunfire if possible, so as to deny the Reds martyrdom. But if they had to shoot, the troops were to shoot to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Plot That Failed | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...troublemakers showed, the cops clubbed them, shoved them into cars, drove them off to jail. The police were indiscriminate but effective; the mob never got out of the bazaar. Casualties: two to five rioters dead, another 218 deported to bleak, boiling-hot Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf. General Dadsetan sat back at headquarters and smiled: "There's not much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Plot That Failed | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...longer able to connive in profitable import deals.) In reprisal, the cops had painted identifying marks on the closed shops. When the merchants arrived to unshutter their shops on the next business day, waiting troops stopped them: "You wanted to close, now stay closed." Overhead, gangs of Dadsetan's men, armed with crowbars and picks, ripped up nearly 500 feet of masonry covering shops and booths, exposing them to the elements and to thieves. This was too much for the bazaarites; they trooped to the office of the Premier, General Fazlollah Zahedi, and raised their hands in supplication while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Plot That Failed | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

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