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After 35 days of stormy hearings, the treason trial of former Premier Mohammed Mossadegh came to a surprising end. The court clerk read out the verdict of guilty on each of 13 charges, constituting a revolt against the constitution and the monarchy, and then concluded: "In view of the fact that the accused has no criminal record and is in old age and . . . has rendered valuable services to the Fatherland which have been endorsed by His Majesty . . . His Imperial Majesty has deigned to absolve him. The court deems it proper to observe mitigations in his case and therefore to sentence...
Last week, 14 months after impetuous Mohammed Mossadegh broke diplomatic relations with the British, his successor, General Fazlollah Zahedi. resumed them. Added London: the two nations "will proceed at the earliest mutually agreed moment to negotiate a settlement of the oil dispute...
Theoretically it was to be the prosecutor's week in court, but the writer, producer, director and star performer was again that wizened old mummer, Mohammed Mossadegh. Hunched over the defense table in Saltanatabad barracks, the deposed Premier of Iran kept up a running commentary on Prosecutor Brigadier General Hussein Azemudeh's attempt to have him convicted of treason. He feigned shock, horror, innocence, fear of assassination, and sleep; he corrected the prosecutor's grammar and syntax, wowed the courtroom crowd with witty ad libs, laughed at the court's most damaging evidence, and finally developed...
...This man is very cunning!" cried Prosecutor Azemudeh. Mossadegh ruminatively lifted his head and, in the voice of an ailing Guernsey, commented: "Moooooooo!" Azemudeh recited a vast series of crimes committed by Mossadegh against the nation. Said Mossadegh: "Mooooo!" Azemudeh poured scorn and shame on the man who had defied the Shah of Iran. Mossadegh replied: "Moooooo...
...week's end, Mossadegh was very much in control, the Shah had ordered the prosecution to soft-pedal its language because Mossadegh's huge public following was showing its sympathies, and the government was sorry that it had ever decided to try the old man publicly. Mossadegh vowed to take a whole month in his rebuttal; wearily the court decided to sit once a day instead of twice. In the end, went the gag around Teheran, the five military judges will throw themselves on the mercy of the defendant...