Word: mossadegh
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...long and acrimonious Anglo-Iranian oil dispute was so close to settlement that Iran's top negotiator announced: "There is nothing important left which could produce a deadlock." And last week Premier Fazlollah Zahedi, Iran's soldier strongman, who arrested his nation's decline from Mossadegh to Moscow, indicated that he was prepared to steer his country away from its classic anxious neutrality...
...century, they have invaded the country six times, looted its Caspian caviar and its Treasury. Only the collective wrath of the infant U.N. made the Russians desist from setting up a little soviet in Azerbaijan province right after World War II. A year ago, in the last days of Mossadegh, the Communist Tudeh Party almost took over Iran. After all this, to Teheran's amazement and consternation, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Lavrentiev last month promised a "great Russian favor": the return of 300 Iranians detained in Russia...
...Iran, an appeals tribunal upheld the punishment of former Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, who, in deference to his allergy to jail, had got one of history's shortest stretches for high treason: three years in prison, thus far livened only by a "fast unto death" that lasted two days...
...formalities in the Teheran mosque gave the government more than the quorum of Deputies needed to summon the Majlis into session-the first since it was dissolved by would-be Dictator Mossadegh in August 1953. Desperate to get Iran's major resource, oil, into world markets after 30 months of near-bankruptcy, Premier Zahedi let it be known that the parliament's first big assignment will be to ratify a new oil agreement with Western companies...
...pounded on the door of a house in suburban Teheran. To the full-bearded, pajama-clad man who answered, he said: "Your time is up. Get ready to move." The man in hiding was Hussein Fatemi, the hated and long sought No. 2 man and Foreign Minister in the Mossadegh regime. Fatemi had been variously reported as torn to pieces by the Teheran mobs last August, or in hiding in Cairo, Berlin, the Iranian hills. Fatemi was hauled off to jail, but on the way he was stabbed superficially by someone in a howling street mob. The government reported Fatemi...