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...London and Washington exchanged thousands of words on the subject, Iran continued to go steadily into the hands of the extremists. In Teheran, with the galleries screaming approval, the Majlis voted a full pardon to bearded Khalil Tahmassebi, the nationalist fanatic who murdered moderate, pro-Western Premier Ali Razmara in March 1951. Then, to the second most powerful post in Iran, president of the Majlis, it elected the Mullah Ayatullah Kashani, spiritual chief of the assassins. Extremist Kashani arranged the Nationalist-Red alliance that battered Qavam out of power and brought Mossadegh back (TIME, Aug. 4). He still fancies himself...
They heard him in 1951, however. On March 8, the day after Ali Razmara, Iran's able, pro-Western Premier, was assassinated, Mossadegh submitted to the Iranian Majlis his proposal to nationalize Iran's oil. In a few weeks a wave of anti-foreign feeling, assisted by organized terrorism, swept him into the premiership...
Mohammed Reza Pahlevi (31),Shahinshahof Iran, is pro-Western and has progressive ideas (last January he began sale of his vast land holdings to peasants on easy installment terms, gave the proceeds to charity). But when the oil crisis flared up, though he was opposed to the fanatical National Front, he did not dare take action. He is now powerless before fragile, faint-prone Premier Mohammed Mossadeq and his National Front...
Charles Malik (45), Lebanese Minister to the U.S. and U.N. delegate, brilliant, genuinely pro-Western thinker and statesman. Cultured, well-educated (American University of Beirut, Harvard), Christian, international-minded, Malik is one of the few bright spots in the Middle Eastern picture, but has virtually no political force to back his sympathies...
...Saud, his family's old enemy, did not like the scheme, and neither did Egypt's Farouk, who dreamed, with his politicians, of uniting the Arab world under Egypt's leadership. Abdullah came to be almost universally disliked by other Arab leaders, denounced for his pro-Western stand...