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Since 1946 the Court has handled 46 cases. Most spectacular was Britain's oil dispute with Iran in 1952, when Premier Mohammed Mossadegh himself appeared at the Court to defend nationalization of the British wells and refinery. When The Hague judges handed down an interim ruling in Britain's favor, Mossadegh simply declared that Iran would no longer accept the Court's jurisdiction. Last year the Court finally, after years of arguments, ruled for Honduras in the ancient Honduras-Nicaragua border squabble, but to this day the judges have received no official word as to whether Nicaragua...
When voters believe the ballot has no meaning, abstentions can speak as loudly as an electoral landslide. One party showed ominous strength, though it won no seats at all. It was the National Front, a loose, left-wing coalition that rallies behind old Mohammed Mossadegh, the Red-lining former Premier who has lived under tacit house arrest since leaving prison in 1956. Convinced that the election would be fraudulent, the National Front ordered it boycotted. And last week the Front was taking credit for the fact that of 600,000 eligible voters in the capital city of Teheran, only...
Outraged by the fraud, Teheran University Professor Mozaffer Baghai, once a lieutenant of ex-Premier Mohammed Mossadegh and now an advocate of Gandhi-style protest, last week rallied 2,000 young Iranians to a meeting of his new movement, the "Protectors of Liberty." Speaking in quiet classroom tones from a stuccoed Teheran balcony, Baghai declared: "Premier Eghbal is a traitor. Among the big opium smugglers are high government officials, deputies, ministers, directors of independent agencies. Dr. Eghbal knows every one of them. If this Cabinet does not resign or is not removed, there will be an end to the Kingdom...
...democratic countries." A day later, Premier Eghbal motored to Saadabad Palace and turned in his resignation. At week's end it still lay on the desk of the Shah, who pondered how to soothe a popular unrest not seen in Iran since the fall of weepy, nationalistic Mossadegh seven years before...
...Shah clearly hopes that this month's elections will provide a safety valve. "We have two political parties which will have interparty strife," he says. But even so, the Shah is leaving little to chance. Old Mossadegh, who is still secretly admired by many Iranians, is kept safely sequestered on his estate 25 miles outside Teheran, and any Mossadegh supporter finds it impossible to run for election. Of the authorized parties, the Melliyun is under the leadership of Prime Minister Manouchehr Eghbal who once told Parliament, "I am not interested in your criticism and your complaints...