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...Nationalist Mossadegh is in the unhappy position of most revolutionary moderates, who, once having started a revolution, find they become victims of it," says Brinton, author of the "Anatomy of Revolution...
Russia will not necessarily be able to cash in if the local Communists get control, he adds. The Tudeh party may turn out to be Titoist, and that may mean the West will still get oil. Mossadegh and all his confederate landowners will be classed as kulaks, though, and suffer accordingly...
Brinton is sure Mossadegh will hate to do this. "He is an intellectual, "and if he gives up now, he will feel he has not acted according to conscience." Worse, the Middle-Eastern effendi or upper class, of which he is a member, has built up a tremendous reservoir of inferiority feelings towards the West...
...final possibility is for extremist effendi reactionaries to oust Mossadegh by some coup. "If the effendi can do this." Brinton says, "They will almost certainly re-establish good relations with the West, realizing this is probably the only way they will be able to gain a sure lease on life for themselves...
Great skill will be needed if the Iranians are to tread this isolationist path, and Mossadegh, Brinton thinks, is not the man to do the treading--his head is likely to roll long before...