Word: fadayan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Confronted, Zolgadr at last confessed that he had received orders from Fadayan Islam to kill Ala "because he was treading in the path of treason...
Teheran's Mosque of the Shah is getting to be no refuge for Premiers of Iran. In 1951, Premier Ali Razmara, one of Iran's ablest men, was assassinated there by a member of the fanatic Fadayan Islam (Crusaders of Islam). Last week 72-year-old Hussein Ala, the ablest of Razmara's successors as Premier, arrived at the mosque for a memorial service. Entering, he shucked his shoes, started across the carpeted floor. He was stopped by a thinly bearded man who drew a revolver and shouted: "Why are there so many prostitutes in the city...
Tahmassebi's next call was on Navab Safavi, hard-working boss of the terrorist Fadayan Islam (Crusaders of Islam), which plotted Razmara's killing. Safavi was himself in jail on suspicion of murdering other moderates, but in present-day Iran that is a mark of distinction. The two wept at the reunion, and Tahmassebi said: "Thanks to God we succeeded in our task." Over fruits and sweets served in his cozy cell, Safavi boasted: "I am such a powerful man that if I decide at any time, the gates of this prison will be opened...
...assailant made no attempt to escape: he tossed the pistol away, crying "Allah akbar!" (Allah is great), and then started to faint. Police seized him. Pasted on the revolver was a message demanding freedom for Navab Safavi, imprisoned leader of Iran's most feared terror group-Fadayan Islam. The terrorists had picked young Mohammed Mehdi Mojtahedi to kill Fatemi because capital punishment does not apply to teen-age killers in Iran. The boy told cops that the next victim on Fadayan's schedule was Premier Mossadegh, because he flirted with foreigners...
While covering a meeting of the anti-British Fadayan Islam, Bell ran into a strange sort of trouble. He and three other correspondents jeeped up to the Shah's Mosque, where a Fadayan fanatic had assassinated Prime Minister Ali Razmara. The crowd of Fadayans suddenly became a shouting, angry mob, surrounded the correspondents' jeep, beat on the window curtains and bounced the little car around. After three false starts down dead-end streets, the correspondents escaped. The cause of all the row: the rioters had thought that Bell was Winston Churchill...