Word: mossadegh
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...Majlis gardens, long-robed deputies bargained and pledged their support. At issue: Who should sit in the speaker's chair of the Majlis? Should it be evil old Mullah Kashani, the incumbent, who would deal with anybody, including the Communists, to get power? Or should it be Premier Mossadegh's choice, a popular lawyer named Abdullah Moazzami...
...stakes were large. Said the pro-Kashani newspaper Oghab-i-Shargh: "The blood of Mossadegh, Moazzami and other enemies of freedom is now legal." The pro-Mossadegh Jebheh Azadi spat back: "Only traitors will vote for Mr. Kashani." And Kashani himself attacked Mossadegh in characteristic terms: "Such men should be hanged by the people...
...vote was a setback for Kashani, but the power of the aged little fanatic has always been in the streets, rather than the Majlis. And though Mossadegh had won one more parliamentary triumph, his power is steadily being undermined by 1) the unpopularity of his attempt to oust the Shah, win control of the army and set up an unopposed dictatorship; 2) his failure to break the British blockade and sell crude oil to the outside world; 3) the attrition of the currency (the rial was 118 to the dollar last week, against 74 a year ago, 47 two years...
...Mossadegh himself scoffs at charges that his ineffective regime is leading Iran towards Communism. He leans back in his pink-painted iron cot and points to his two air conditioners, one British, one American. "Could anyone with a car and air coolers and a good bed like mine be a Communist?" he asks...
They kissed the captain on both cheeks, handed him a big basket of flowers and an autographed photo of Mohammed Mossadegh, "in commemoration of the heroic first shipment of petroleum from Iran to Japan...