Word: fatemi
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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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...
...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...
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...