Word: fatemi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Incipient terrorism" is rife in Iran, a Ntw York Timesman reported last November. He was expelled from the country for saying so. The man who kicked him out, a noisy nationalist named Hussein Fatemi, is Premier Mossadegh's right bower. Fatemi fancies himself a newsman (he edits Teheran's xenophobic Bakhtar Emrooz). He helped light the fires which roasted the British out of Abadan...
Last week, Fatemi went to a Moslem cemetery outside Teheran to address a nationalist gathering at the tomb of Mohammed Massoud, an Iranian newspaperman killed by terrorists in 1948. Fatemi had just reached the climax, declaring: "What is life worth, compared with such high objectives?" when a shaven-headed 15-year-old boy in the audience reached inside his coat and drew out a U.S.-made .45. With both hands, he fired a bullet into Fatemi's belly, only three yards away...
...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...
Mossadegh's No. 2 man, Deputy Premier Hussein Fatemi, sternly warned Iran's old oil customers (including Great Britain) that they had exactly ten days to resume buying Iranian oil. After that, he implied, Iran would sell to Russia and her satellites. The threat was about as empty as Iran's treasury. The West no longer hangs on Iran...
Said the Times in an editorial: "These charges may have their effect on the street crowds of Teheran. They need no answer here. Journalism simply isn't conducted in the United States along the lines indicated by Dr. Fatemi...