Word: iranians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Iranian Embassy...
While there is little evidence of a formal alliance between the two forces, they certainly play into each other's hands. If anything, the Iranian Reds have been quiescent lately, while Moscow was wooing Teheran through diplomacy. But there has been increased activity by Moslem fanatics, who are particularly opposed to the Shah's selling mosque-owned estates to land-hungry peasants and his grants of social and political equality to women...
Raising the war cry "Down with the undemocratic regime of the Shah," Moslem extremists are fighting reforms with terror. In the last 16 years, three Iranian leaders have been murdered and a fourth narrowly escaped. The latest victim: Premier Hassanali Mansur, 41, who died last week after having been shot by a young Moslem terrorist at the gates of the Iranian Parliament...
...coincidence, the montage appeared the same day last December as West German President Heinrich Lübke's annual game hunt for diplomats in Westphalia, giving the Iranian ambassador opportunity to vent his indignation point-blank to the chief of state. Lübke's sympathy for the envoy's case was hardly reduced by the fact that the Stadt-Anzeiger had vigorously opposed Lübke's re-election as President in 1964. On a New Year's Eve TV program, he announced without mentioning names, that a journalist had "disparaged a friendly head...
...Foreign Office, demanding legal action under Article 103 of the German Criminal Code, which forbids slandering foreign heads of state. Prodded by Lübke, the Cologne prosecutor sent four investigators to raid 25-year-old Cartoonist Sattler's apartment, presumably in search of some evidence supporting dark Iranian hints that Sattler's acid pen had been dipped in Nasser or Communist money. They found nothing of the sort...