Word: fatemi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning last week, an officer pounded on the door of a house in suburban Teheran. To the full-bearded, pajama-clad man who answered, he said: "Your time is up. Get ready to move." The man in hiding was Hussein Fatemi, the hated and long sought No. 2 man and Foreign Minister in the Mossadegh regime. Fatemi had been variously reported as torn to pieces by the Teheran mobs last August, or in hiding in Cairo, Berlin, the Iranian hills. Fatemi was hauled off to jail, but on the way he was stabbed superficially by someone in a howling street...
...carnival of destruction. Communist and Nationalist mobs swarmed deliriously over Teheran's principal squares, pulling down the great bronze statues of the Shah and his father. They opened and denied the Reza Shah's tomb, spat on the Shah's picture, applauded as Foreign Minister Hussein Fatemi cried: "To the gallows" with the young Shah...
...Shah's allies and strongpoints had been enveloped and destroyed. At the end, only 700 of the Imperial Guard and one brigade were loyal to the palace. Shortly before midnight they donned helmets and took up arms against Mossadegh. They arrested three Cabinet members, including Foreign Minister Hussein Fatemi. With a few truckloads of troops, a colonel of the Imperial Guard set off for Mossadegh's house, with royal orders for the Premier's dismissal. Mossadegh's forces had been tipped off and were waiting. The Imperial Guards walked into a solid wall of tanks, trucks...
...Fatemi, crying, "Save me, I am burning!", was rushed to a hospital, where Mossadegh's elder son, Dr. Gholam Hussein Mossadegh, sewed up his shattered intestines. At week's end, he was reported "holding...
...remarkable as his continued survival was Fatemi's continued refusal to acknowledge any "incipient terrorism" among the Iranians. His first words on recovering consciousness: "The British have done it again. But again they have misfired...