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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from police stations and army barracks. In Tehran, Tabriz and other cities, sporadic fighting raised the death toll for the week to an estimated 1,500. A bewildering motley of forces was involved: troops loyal to the Shah, ethnic separatists, mojahedeen (literally crusaders) who backed the new government of Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan, and, ominously, Marxist fedayeen (sacrificers) who felt that the revolution had not moved far enough to the left...
...fissures appeared shortly after the collapse, on Sunday, Feb. 11, of the 45-day-old government of Shahpour Bakhtiar, who had been appointed Prime Minister by the Shah. Following a bloody weekend of fighting between units of the Imperial Guard and pro-Khomeini airmen and armed civilians at Doshan Tappeh airbase in eastern Tehran, the army supreme command abruptly announced that it would withdraw its troops and give "full support to the wishes of the people." The army had been Bakhtiar's last prop; he resigned, as did the members of parliament...
...screeched to a halt and some Iranian air force officers, along with a harried-looking man, hurried into the compound. Looking worried, he held a bullhorn to his mouth and shouted: "I am a representative of [Prime Minister Mehdi] Bazargan. Don't shoot. Orders from Khomeini." His bullhorn was not working. Almost nobody heard him, but he went on shouting: "This shooting is a conspiracy against Khomeini. Stop shooting. For the honor of the country, please stop...
...taking pictures, a tough-looking gunman in a nylon stocking mask carrying an Uzi submachine gun recognized me as someone he had ordered to leave earlier. He swung his machine gun around and sternly motioned me through the gate. I caught a glimpse of Deputy Prime Minister Ibrahim Yazdi being driven into the compound in a blue Mercedes. The agitated look on his face as he surveyed the scene suggested that he was just beginning to realize how difficult the governing of post-revolutionary Iran was going...
...joint statement Vance, Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Khalil and Israeli Prime Minister Moshe Dayan said they began the talks with a reaffirmation of "their determination to bend their best efforts toward successful completion of the negotiations as soon as possible...