Word: eddin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show from his cot, summoning Western diplomats, cowing the Iranian Parliament with his National Front thugs, telling the Shah where he got off-has begun to slip. Fourteen deputies last week signed a manifesto protesting the Premier's policies, deriding the fiasco of oil nationalization. Sayid Zia Eddin Tabatabai, onetime Premier and wily old politician, set up an opposition, revived his National Will Party. The Shah, who has been mum about his dislike of Mossadeq and his policies, last week made a public plea for national unity in which he said flatly that Iran was facing the worst crisis...
Hurt, angry and soundly defeated, Premier Ala handed in his resignation to the Shah. Then the Shah conferred with his next choice for Premier, Sayid Zia Eddin Tabatabai, 58, white-maned ex-newspaperman and model farmer, who had helped the Shah's father to power in 1921. But the Majlis roughly brushed aside the Shah's candidate, nominated Mossadeq himself to head the government that would take possession of A.I.O.C...