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...from Home. Some unfeeling Deputies thought that Mossadeq had used these melodramatics to pressure Parliament. If so, he succeeded. Parliament speedily chose five Deputies, who with five Senators and the Finance Minister, will make up the board empowered to take over the nationalized Anglo-Iranian...
...night," new Premier Mohamed Mossadeq told Parliament last week, "I dreamed I saw a person with rays of light radiating from his face. He said, 'Dr. Mossadeq, go and tear the chains off the feet of the Iranian people . . .' When the nationalization of oil was passed by Parliament, I accepted that the man in the dream came from God." Added the 70-year-old Premier: "Since that dream I have given no importance to my life...
...life, he said, was in danger. The fanatical, nationalistic Fadayan Islam had threatened to kill him because his government had jailed Fadayan terrorists. Mossadeq reported that he has taken to carrying a revolver. "I have strength and ability to shoot my killer," he said. "What God has decided for me will be accomplished. Therefore I need no bodyguard...
When he had finished, the Premier folded his notes, stepped from the rostrum, keeled over in a faint. Parliament knew just what to do-Mossadeq is always expected to faint when he gets excited, which is often. Two physician-deputies picked him off the red-carpeted floor, carried him out and revived...
...Later, Mossadeq announced that not only Safavi but Anglo-Iranian was out to get him, too. Said he: "I cannot go home or return to my office." The Premier settled down in the Majlis building; two rooms were hastily prepared, and a truck brought a bed from Mossadeq's home...