Word: jaafar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hotels, trashed cinemas, bars, liquor stores and airline offices, which have come to be reviled by both leftists and religious rightists as detested symbols of Western economic domination. This time the troops did nothing. The Shah decided it was time to act. He asked for the resignation of Premier Jaafar Sharif-Emami and his ten-week-old government. On Sunday evening, the Shah named General Gholam Reza Azhari, 61, a career officer who has been Chief of Staff of the armed forces since 1971, as Premier and head of a new Cabinet composed of nine military leaders and twelve civilians...
...antigovernment demonstrators, walked out, demanding that they be given protective security. The press, which was partly unshackled last month, successfully won an end to all censorship. Employees of the government-financed National Iranian Radio and Television network, who struck for the second time last week, demanded-and got-Premier Jaafar Sharif-Emami's assurance that there would be no more government interference. Workers at one Tehran daily even struck in opposition to what they called management's "self-censorship" of the news...
...present turmoil in Iran: [It] is a struggle against a cruel oppression. The people of Iran have no faith in the new Premier, [Jaafar] Sharif-Emami. He and his Cabinet are unable to solve Iran's problems. [But] victory is near, and the Shah and his entire system will be overthrown...
...speech to the lower house of parliament, the Shah's new Premier, Jaafar Sharif-Emami, conceded that Iran was "paying a price" for the manner in which its economic programs had been conducted. The Premier promised that the government's liberalization program, under which no fewer than 40 political parties have formed, would result in new "political freedoms and social justice." The government promised to allow the parties time to organize and campaign before next June's promised elections...
...Declared an army officer: "We told the Shah, as Lincoln once said, a house divided cannot stand by itself." Said a general to the Shah: "It is against our military honor to stand the present situation." A lengthy late-night Cabinet meeting followed, and on the morning after, Premier Jaafar Sharif-Emami proclaimed a curfew and martial law for six months. Not in a quarter-century had Tehran been under the rule of troops...