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...others are not convinced. "Many Iranian technocrats, doctors and engineers fled Iran because they were scared of fanatics like the Mujahedin, not because they supported the Shah," says Ali Shahin Fatimi, editor of an Iranian newsletter in Paris. Other Iranian intellectuals in exile criticize Banisadr's arrogance and political naivete. Says one: "If he could not do anything as President, and if he cannot organize a revolt from within Tehran itself, what can Banisadr possibly do from Paris?" It is a question that the mullahs were also asking themselves last week in Tehran. -By William Drozdiak...
Last Word. The explanation did not satisfy the foreign press corps in Teheran. In a body, it assembled at the Foreign Ministry to demand specifics. Lamely, Deputy Premier Hussein Fatimi quoted excerpts from Daily Express editorials (which Delmer did not write), referred vaguely to a supposedly inaccurate Reuters' report, sternly added that Iran has no need to tolerate "insults and lies." New York Timesman Michael Clark, informal spokesman for the group, snapped right back with a lecture on freedom of the press. Said he:"The reflections with which we have just been gratified are more generally heard in police...
Moscow's Delight. At week's end Ala called the Majlis into special session, to ask its approval of his proclamation of martial law. Editor Fatimi called the step illegal...
...strikers last week. In a letter to Premier Ala, the Frontists expressed "strong suspicions" that the A.I.O.C. was provoking the workers into striking, and asked an on-the-spot investigation. (The A.I.O.C. called the charge absurd.) Ala asked the Frontists to see him. He talked to Editor Fatimi and a National Front deputy for two hours, agreed to the investigation, and the Council of Ministers promptly appointed the committee that the National Front had asked...
Still not satisfied, Fatimi told newsmen that Anglo-Iranian must go: the Frontists would rather sell the oil to the Russians or leave it in the ground than let the British get it. He indirectly threatened Hussein Ala, who has yet to declare himself on the nationalization question: "Anyone who tries to reverse nationalization will be liquidated...