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...tore apart the famous iron cot on which Mossadegh had reigned so long with weepy-eyed, irrational stubbornness. The rioters ripped the house to pieces, hauled the furniture into the streets and auctioned it off (a new electric refrigerator went for $36). Soon, nothing remained of 109 Kakh Street but memories of a regime which had stood Iran and the Western world on its ear for more than two years. But, even in his last hours of power, Mohammed Mossadegh cost the nation dear: 300 died that day. Dressed in silk pajamas, Mossadegh surrendered 24 hours later to General Zahedi...
...ordered a dozen summer frocks. That noon, in the Excelsior dining room, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi began his shrimp cocktail, just another king in exile; by the time he reached his coffee, he was back in business as Shah. A reporter (see PRESS) rushed to his table with the news: "Mossadegh has been overthrown, Your Majesty!" The Shah's jaw dropped; his trembling fingers reached for a cigarette. "Can it be true?" he asked uncertainly. The Queen was quicker on the uptake. "How exciting," said Soraya, placing a calming hand on her husband's arm. "It shows...
GENERAL Fazlollah Zahedi, who succeeds Mossadegh, is an ambitious nationalist and a tough soldier. He is no reformer, like Egypt's Naguib or Syria's Shishekly. Now 56, he has a hard, rocklike face, topped by straight, greying hair; he stands tall and straight despite severe arthritis...
Home again at war's end, Zahedi first held an important regional army command, then was Minister of the Interior when Mossadegh first took office. Mossadegh kept him on. The two cooperated to boot out the British oil company; but Mossadegh's toleration of the outlawed
Appointed a Senator by the Shah, Zahedi held automatic immunity from arrest. In October 1952, Mossadegh dissolved the whole Senate, apparently in order to nab Zahedi. Under arrest, the general was still a nuisance; he roamed his old haunts at the Interior Ministry and police headquarters, issuing orders and communiques. After a month of it, Mossadegh set him free...