Word: fadayan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three weeks after moderate Premier Ali Razmara was assassinated last March by a member of the extremist Fadayan Islam, the old dissenter got his unconditional nationalization program through Parliament by unanimous vote. He was asked by Parliament to be Prime Minister. Though "sick and old," he accepted, bowing, as he said, to the demands of the majority...
There was need for haste. Fadayan Islam was acting ominously. Day before, its young (27), wild-eyed leader, Seyed Safavi, secretly met a United Pressman in a mud hut in Teheran's outskirts, there proudly announced that he personally was responsible for the assassination of Premier Razmara (TIME, March 19). Asked, "Has Your Eminence other persons on your list?" Safavi replied: "There are quite a few who must be pushed down the incline to hell." Added Safavi: "There are 5,000 people who would immediately give their lives at my command...
...life, he said, was in danger. The fanatical, nationalistic Fadayan Islam had threatened to kill him because his government had jailed Fadayan terrorists. Mossadeq reported that he has taken to carrying a revolver. "I have strength and ability to shoot my killer," he said. "What God has decided for me will be accomplished. Therefore I need no bodyguard...
Fine Impartiality. Assassin Tahmassebi is a carpenter, a reader of the Koran in the mosque, a member of a small xenophobic sect called Fadayan Islam (Crusaders of Islam) which, with fine impartiality, has been denouncing Truman, Stalin and Britain's George VI. Washington and London, which were shocked and worried by Razmara's murder, regarded Tahmassebi as a mere triggerman; the real instigator was assumed to be Ayatulla Kashani, head of Fadayan Islam and a member of a twelve-man "National Front" in the Majlis (parliament...
...recent months nearly all sectors of Iranian opinion-and especially such nationalist and religious groups as Fadayan Islam-had been screaming for nationalization of oil, that is, for the freeing of Iranian oil from control by Britain, whose present contracts run to 1993 (TIME, Jan. 8; Feb. 5). Razmara had steadfastly opposed nationalization, on the ground that it would cause unemployment and great loss of urgently needed government revenue...