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...Preposterous!" exploded the Shah. Ala scampered back and told Mossadegh that the Shah had refused to accept the resignation. That put a crimp in any designs the conscientious young (32) Shah might have had. Mossadegh said he was still determined to resign. The religious leader, Mullah Kashani, arrived and urged the Premier to reconsider. You can't, he urged, leave the people in their hour of need. A few hours later, the whole cabinet assembled at the Premier's home. They argued, they reasoned, they pleaded, they begged. At long last, Mossadegh gave in. He had decided...
...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...
...sect called Fadayan Islam (Crusaders of Islam) which, with fine impartiality, has been denouncing Truman, Stalin and Britain's George VI. Washington and London, which were shocked and worried by Razmara's murder, regarded Tahmassebi as a mere triggerman; the real instigator was assumed to be Ayatulla Kashani, head of Fadayan Islam and a member of a twelve-man "National Front" in the Majlis (parliament...
Blood in the Streets. The immediate cause of Hajir's difficulties was the implacable opposition of top-ranking Mullah Kashani, who calls himself "pontiff and religious head of Moslems in the Middle East." As the highest Persian religious leader he was a power to be reckoned with. Kashani has hated the British ever since they sentenced him to death for resisting their move into Iraq after World War I. Now Anglophobe Kashani denounced Hajir as a "British spy." "Blood will run in the streets before we accept this man," said Kashani...
Last week blood did run. A mob of 3,000, whipped on by Kashani and other mullahs, gathered outside the Majlis building. There they tangled with police and soldiers. Some demonstrators acted on a Persian belief that the barefooted are the fleetest; they shed their slippers and scampered for safety, a slipper tucked under each arm. Among the demonstrators and troops, one was killed, 70 wounded. The Majlis meeting was canceled...