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...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 his cheeks: "I give the assurance that as long as I am Premier, no steps will...
Within minutes after the British made the offer, the Iranian delegation left the meeting room, phoned frail, ailing Premier Mohammed Mossadeq. Thirty minutes later, Britain's chief negotiator, Basil Jackson, looking pale and strained, walked out of the conference room and said to waiting newsmen: "Well, talks are broken off, gentlemen. They refused to accept our suggestions under any circumstances...
Then, in true thriller fashion, U.S. Ambassador Henry Grady rode to the rescue-or temporary rescue. He sent a go-between to the bedside of frail, faint-prone Premier Mohammed Mossadeq, who was so weak that the doctors gave him a transfusion (seeing that it was American plasma, Mossadeq cracked:"Do you think it will make me more reasonable?"). On Grady's plea, Mossadeq gave London two more days to answer the Iranian ultimatum. For the time being, at least, the British were still hanging...
Iran's frail, faint-prone Premier Mohammed Mossadeq last week left the Parliament building, where he had been holed up for 20 days in fear of assassins, and moved back to his home. The Iranian situation, for weeks as black as oil, was getting just a shade brighter...
...Prospects. For the moment, Mossadeq holds power in his frail, nervous hands. The only other Iranian politician of stature is Ahmad Qavam, who is ill in Switzerland. The young Shah, who is known to favor a go-slow policy on oil nationalization, could dissolve Parliament, dismiss Mossadeq and rule the country with his still loyal army, but all signs indicate that he does not dare try. Even the Communists have for the moment been stopped by Mossadeq's popularity. They have called off street demonstrations and other political action, evidently waiting to strike if & when Mossadeq makes a mess...