Word: fazlollah
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...city-Mossy was allowed to see only his guards, a military prosecutor, his wife, daughter and nurse. But the ex-Premier knew that if his performance was good enough, its fame would spread to the streets and make it harder than ever for the Shah and new Premier Fazlollah Zahedi to get him off the political stage. Resolutely he resisted the prosecutor, who came to interrogate him in preparation for a trial. "I refuse to be questioned by you or by anyone else," cried Mossadegh. Sometimes he simply pretended to fall asleep. He demanded to see a lawyer-to draw...
Twice last week, U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson closeted himself with Iran's new Premier Fazlollah Zahedi for discussions of "urgent matters," meaning dollars. Then he hurried back to the big, red brick U.S. embassy in Teheran, where his staff, in shirtsleeves, worked full speed. Messages winged between Teheran and Washington, between Washington and London. The West's diplomats faced an opportunity they had muffed once before. The challenge: to convert Iran's wondrous reprieve into a sustained survival. The need: to support Iran's economy until it can support itself...
...GENERAL Fazlollah Zahedi, who succeeds Mossadegh, is an ambitious nationalist and a tough soldier. He is no reformer, like Egypt's Naguib or Syria's Shishekly. Now 56, he has a hard, rocklike face, topped by straight, greying hair; he stands tall and straight despite severe arthritis...
...face of Mossadegh's overwhelming control, the Shah's belated assertion of his constitutional prerogative was made to seem like an attempted coup, and Mossadegh, the usurper, to personify law & order. Belatedly, from a hideout in the mountains, a brave follower of the Shah's, General Fazlollah Zahedi, onetime Senator, proclaimed himself Premier. He had royal decrees from the Shah, he said, dismissing Mossadegh. As recently as a year ago, Teheran would have rung with the news; now it caused no stir...
...police picked up Tamara, a faded femme fatale, Teheran's top belly dancer two decades ago, along with another dancer named Helene and a tall, hard Rumanian barmaid called Nelly. But they knew nothing, and were released. Then the cops went looking for-but could not find-General Fazlollah Zahedi, head of the Retired Officers' Association and an avowed anti-Mossadegh plotter. The government offered 500,000 rials (about $15,000) for information, and promised amnesty to anyone producing Afshartous...