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Russia hopes to legally take over Iran and use its oil as a potent economic pressure against countries of the Middle and Far East, according to Richard N. Frye, assistant professor of Middle Eastern Studies, who has recently returned from a year's travel in this area...
Premier Mossadegh of Iran, ruling by fear, fears assassination himself and is being exploited by extremist groups around him, Frye said...
Although the Tudah or Communist party is outlawed in Iran, they are very well organized in the cities which "they could take over tomorrow," Frye stated. But they know that a combination of the tribes, the villagers, and the landowners could starve them out of power by cutting off food supplies...
...Tudah is trying to get legal or semi-legal seizure of power," Frye stated. He called attention to a 1921 treaty by which Russia promises to help the government if foreign troops enter the country...
Contrary to widely accepted reports that Russia wants Persian oil for their own mobilization effort, Frye said that they have "plenty of oil to exploit in the Soviet bloc," and that if they get control of Iran they will undersell Western oil companies and thus, "use this oil as a lever to bring economic pressure" on India, China, Indo China and other nations in that region...