Word: mossadeq
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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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...
Diplomacy by Swoon "The latest diplomatic feint," said a U.N. wag last week, "is the dead faint." The trend was set by Iran's new Premier Mossadeq, who swoons whenever he gets really worked up during a political speech (TIME, May 21). Last week, Israel's U.N. Delegate Abba S. Eban, a good deal younger (36) than Iran's 70-year-old Premier and far more robust, followed the fashion: at the end of an hour-long speech before the Security Council, Eban blanched, staggered out of the Council chamber and keeled over in the corridor...
Behind Boarded Windows. Premier Mohammed Mossadeq huddled his frail frame in an overstuffed chair behind the guarded doors of an office in Teheran's Parliament building. He would not budge from the room, but worked, ate and slept there, a nationalist fanatic living in fear of assassination by other nationalist fanatics. To protect himself from snipers, he ordered all the windows of his room boarded up. In an adjoining chamber, a parliamentary oil commission was drafting a plan to take over the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., declared nationalized last month...
Britain's Ambassador, Sir Francis Shepherd, tried in vain to get into Mossadeq's redoubt. He had another note to deliver from the Foreign Office in London. The best he could do was to leave it at the Iranian Foreign Ministry. His Majesty's government insisted that the Shah's government must not unilaterally break its 1933 contract with Anglo-Iranian. London wanted "negotiation to the satisfaction of all concerned," proposed sending a mission to Teheran at once. London said it would bring up the issue before the International Court of Justice at The Hague...
...just the same old nonsense-we've heard it all before," snapped one of Mossadeq's aides. The Iranian reaction to rumors of possible British military intervention in Iran was instant and hectic. The National Front newspaper Shahed screamed: "[Neither] oil-eating British politicians [nor] any power or force in the whole world would be able to declare the oil nationalization law null and void without starting World War III . . . For every Iranian the question of oil is a religious and national matter . . . To reach the holy goal a holy war may be needed...