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...ruggedly handsome Brigadier General Mahmoud Afshartous was Iran's top cop. He played no politics, and he enforced the law impartially, an attitude so exceptional in Iran that it seemed somehow vindictive. Four months ago Mohammed Mossadegh, his great-uncle by marriage, appointed Mahmoud chief of the National Police. He was reportedly slated to head up the army too, as soon as Mossadegh pried it loose from the Shah. Mahmoud was going places...
...Company of Women. At 1 a.m. Premier Mossadegh was roused from bed with the news of the disappearance; within a few minutes 500 cops rushed into the area where Afshartous was last seen...
Clad in pajamas, lying in bed, Mohammed Mossadegh, the old man of Iran, played the waiting game. Five times in two years either Britain or the U.S. had hurried to his bedside with offers to settle the dispute over Iran's nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s billion-dollar properties. Five times he said no. Each time he left the door ajar and each time his callers returned bearing still more tempting offers. For the longer he waited in his bed, the weaker Mossadegh seemed, and the more anxious the West grew to prop...
Last week, on the second anniversary of oil nationalization, a recording machine at Mossadegh's bedside took down his answer to Offer No. 6 so that it might be rebroadcast to the nation. It was no, no, a thousand times no. Then Mossadegh settled back in his bed, and the door was again left ever so slightly ajar...
...Middle East oil expert, gloomily watching this familiar performance, was convinced that it is useless to press an oil agreement on Mossadegh, because he could not keep it if one were made. Unstable old Mossadegh stays in power by being antiforeign; for him to sign an agreement would be to surrender this source of his popularity to evil old Mullah Kashani and the Tudeh Communists. The solution, says this expert, is not to make an oil agreement in hopes of bolstering Iran's government, but first to bolster Iran's government so that it might keep whatever...