Word: fedayan
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...wording of the ballot-yes or no to an Islamic republic-has drawn considerable criticism. Last week the National Democratic Front, a new opposition faction, threatened to boycott the referendum if the ballot was not changed. Iran's two armed militias, the Marxist fedayan and the Islamic mojahedeen, hinted that they might support the boycott...
Radical opposition to Khomeini's theocratic dictates is gathering force. In a potentially ominous turnabout, a leader of the Islamic nationalist mojahedeen guerrillas, who are still battling the Marxist Fedayan-e Khalq,* joined the leftists in their demands for a greater role in running the country. Mojahedeen Commander Massoud Rajavi demanded that all restrictions on the radicals' participation in the government be lifted. He voiced support for the "democratically elected" workers councils that are springing up in virtually every institution from businesses to the air force. Such groups have three times forced the resignation of officers appointed...
...week's end, some 200 members of the fanatical Fedayan Islam charged through Teheran's streets to the Shah Mosque, knifing six policemen on the way, shouting: "Stokes, take your proposal to the grave with you." Mullah Kashani, spiritual leader of the terrorists, unblinkingly told Stokes, who came to pay a call: "Tell the British government that if Dr. Mossadeq deviates one iota from oil nationalization, the Iranian people will dispatch him to the next world...
...more apoplectic nationalists do not like the way U.S. Troubleshooter W. Averell Harriman and Premier Mohammed Mossadeq got .together to try to patch up the oil crisis. Last week the nationalists accused Mossadeq of making too many concessions to resume negotiations with the British. The fanatically nationalist organization, Fedayan Islam, one of whose gunmen killed Premier AH Razmara last March, reportedly threatened Mossadeq's frail life. One day last week Mossadeq walked into the Parliament building to explain to a Senate session why he had agreed to negotiate once more. Said Mossadeq, his voice quavering and tears rolling down...