Word: fatimi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...Fatimi had had a good deal to do with putting his country where it is. The violent crusade of the National Front for immediate nationalization of Iran's oil, the threats against those who disagreed, had brought political assassination back to Iran and had made Iran's Communists bold. Last week, under martial law after the murders of Premier AH Razmara and Education Minister Dr. Abdul Zanganeh, Teheran was quiet, but police picked up 25 gun-toting...
...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...