Word: mossadeq
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...Iranian Premier Mohammed Mossadeq who, as correctly reported by TIME [see Cover Story], is anti-British and somewhat anti-American, is to a greater degree anti-Russian. I doubt very much that he and the Parliament or the Iranian people as a whole will allow the Communists to capitalize on the nationalization of oil in Iran...
...face was sallow and flabby, his eyes were watery, his hands trembled. Yet in this fragile frame is a will tougher than the rock of the Elburz Mountains and more inflammable than the oil of Abadan. A month ago, scarcely anyone in the West had ever heard of Mohammed Mossadeq; by last week, what he said and did could powerfully affect the free world's security...
...implausible figure would slide feet first into chaos, taking his country and perhaps a large part of the world with him. Iran is a vital source of oil, the lifeblood of industrial civilization (see box, next page). It is also a natural road of conquest for Soviet Russia. If Mossadeq fails to keep the country's vast oilfields operating, what will happen, at the very least, is that Western Europe will be deprived of the oil it needs to keep its industries going...
...refinery from beneath the baked flats east of the Tigris. The people, moving herds across the plains and raising cotton in the steaming Caspian littoral, lived in poverty, as they had for centuries; as far as they thought about large issues at all, they were ready to follow Mohammed Mossadeq wherever he would lead them...
...bare room at Teheran, where he had taken refuge in fear of the bullets of Moslem extremists-to whose minds even he was not extreme enough-Mossadeq sat in his pajamas and pondered. Occasionally he wandered into the next room and wearily reclined on a couch while a parliamentary committee tried to decide how to tackle the gigantic task of taking over and running the oilfields. U.S. and British diplomats were anxiously trying to guess what was going on inside the Parliament's yellow walls, and inside Mossadeq's eagle-bald head. Sighed one Briton: "We could deal...