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...Iran's new hour of suspense, the big question was what should be done with Mohammed Mossadegh. The Shah and his ministers dared not let him go free to stir Iran once more to rebellion, and chaos. They also feared to execute him for treason, and thus give him a martyr's crown. They even worried that a public trial would give the old wizard a stage from which to work his spell on Teheran's easily swayed street mobs. Mossadegh, after all his years at the game of plot, imprisonment and exile, knew too well...
...streets and make it harder than ever for the Shah and new Premier Fazlollah Zahedi to get him off the political stage. Resolutely he resisted the prosecutor, who came to interrogate him in preparation for a trial. "I refuse to be questioned by you or by anyone else," cried Mossadegh. Sometimes he simply pretended to fall asleep. He demanded to see a lawyer-to draw up his will. He wept in the old abundance, and once he cried, "Kill me now!" He wanted permission to see some old friends and henchmen, and when this demand was rejected, Mossy announced...
...occasion, Mossadegh announced that he would throw himself out the window. The captain of the guard walked to the nearest window and opened it. "I have an order against bringing your friends here," said the captain, "but I have no order against your jumping out of the window." Two hours later the captain came back; his prisoner had left his bed and was sitting sulkily on a chair in a corner far from the window...
Trial & Punishment. But in spite of the 74-year-old ex-dictator's dramatics, the prosecutor came day after day to Mossadegh's room in the army barracks and piled up statements and evidence. At week's end, the government announced that Mossadegh eventually will be tried by a military court-martial for his "illegal acts" against the Shah and the country between Aug. 15, when the Shah fired him as Premier, and Aug. 19, when the mobs chased him from power and recalled the Shah from his brief exile in Rome...
Smartly guided by veteran Diplomat Henderson, the U.S. acted with surprising speed-only 17 days after the anti-Mossadegh coup-and wisely attached no tight strings to its gift. But President Eisenhower's letter did suggest "an early effective use of Iran's rich resources"- a polite way of saying that further aid might depend on Iran's willingness to settle its oil dispute with Britain and get its important resource, the Abadan refineries, back into business. Premier Zahedi seemed to understand. "In the near future," said he, "we should be able to begin to make maximum...