Word: fatemi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Teheran, New York Timesman Michael Clark, 32, son of Freda Kirchwey, editor-publisher of the Nation, was called on the carpet by Iran's Deputy Premier Hussein Fatemi. He clutched a copy of the Times containing a Clark dispatch which said that Premier Mossadegh's "remarkable go-to-o vote of confidence in the Majlis" on his return from the U.S. was helped by "incipient terrorism, i.e., the threat of assassination held over Mossadegh's opponents." Cried Fatemi: "Intolerable insults against the government...
When Timesman Clark replied that he was only reporting "what I saw with my own eyes and heard with my ears," Fatemi snapped: "You are expelled from Iran . . . You are an agent of the former Anglo-Iranian...
...evidence, Fatemi cited the fact that "Clark has reported about terrorism, and the same day the New York Times has published [an Anglo-Iranian] advertisement because it will get $4,000 for that. Newspapers like the New York Times are helping the former Anglo-Iranian...
President Truman replied that "careful consideration" would be given Mossadegh's request for $120 million, which is diplomatic talk for promising nothing. The fact was that, after 41 days in the U.S., Mossadegh was going home emptyhanded. His spokesman, Deputy Premier Hussein Fatemi, told the press that Iran and Britain are engaged in a contest of "pressures." Iran will win, Fatemi said, because "I don't think the economic situation in Great Britain is any better than ours...