Word: mossadegh
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...insists that his servants eat the same food as his family. Once, when a would-be assassin was nabbed outside his door, Alam gave the man $40, then had him thrashed and sent into the street without his pants. In 1953, Alam helped organize the counterrevolution that overthrew Mohammed Mossadegh. Before taking over last week as the Shah's chief minister, Alam was the director of the Pahlevi Foundation, a charitable trust worth at least $133 million, set up by the Shah to finance social-welfare plans out of the profits from royal holdings in banks, industries, hotels...
...perhaps too easy to adopt a self-righteous position and condemn others, and in Iran, the land of classic dualism, one's own position may be exalted as shining light while the opposing view is evil darkness. Neither Dr. Mossadegh nor the Shah should be condemned as archfiends, nor should one or the other be exalted as a paragon of virtue. Criticism is certainly desirable but it should be constructive, and calling names serves little purpose. I hope Iranian students in this country, who hold many views, will avoid extremist positions, and rather study and work for the welfare...
...they had penciled whiskers on a picture of the Shah. (In fact, secret police said they were ringleaders of an outlawed Communist Party cell.) In Teheran and Shiraz, tough, rock-hurling students touched off the fiercest street fighting since 1952, when an earlier coalition of extremes maintained weepy Mohammed Mossadegh in power...
Last week the students chanted Mossadegh's name again-largely because the sonorous, hypnotic word is still a favorite all-purpose battle cry. About 6,000 students battled for four days (with time out for a Moslem holiday), wounded 90 soldiers, and took a brutal beating: 400 students injured, two killed...
National Front is led by taciturn Allahyer Saleh, 64, who collaborated with the Communists in 1947, later served in the government of weepy old Mohammed Mossadegh. Saleh claims that only the National Front can save Iran from Communism, on the ground that it is the only political organization untainted by corruption and, therefore, enjoying public confidence...