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After arrival in Tehran Roosevelt set up headquarters in the basement of the U.S. military mission. He was visited there by General Fazhollah Zahedi, Mossadeq's disaffected Minister of the Interior once described by Soroya, the Shah's second wife, as "half swashbuckler and half Don Juan." Zahedi swashbuckled but was finally compelled to agree with Roosevelt that the prospects for a successful coup were poor. The Shah was depressed and dispirited, incapable of taking any decision, while the armed forces seemed increasingly behind Mossadeq...
...went out to Mehrabad airport to greet his Queen, returning from Rome, his step was firm, his shoulders back. He had given up sleeping pills, taken up tennis again and was working hard. He was spending long hours in his Saadabad Palace office, conferring daily with his new Premier, Fazhollah Zahedi, and with U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson...
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