Word: razmara
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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...
That did it. Nationalists poured into the streets of Teheran and Abadan yelling: "Death to Qavam the traitor." They postured before the soldiers screaming: "Pierce our breasts with your bayonets." Mullah Kashani, whose spiritual followers murdered moderate Premier Ali Razmara in 1951, told newsmen that Qavam would also be "eliminated...
Gone Tomorrow . . . As the news of their work spread, they got help from unexpected sources. An Indian maharaja sent them scores of volumes about his own state. The Finnish Foreign Minister ordered an official geographer to help them, and Iran's late Premier Ali Razmara sent them a special survey he had made for the Iranian army. Some countries were not so cooperative, but the gazetteers managed nonetheless. By looking through a recent propaganda tract from Argentina, they found some of the 1947 population figures that Peron had suppressed. By combing through Soviet schoolbooks they learned a thing...
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...
...fanaticism can be seen in the two men closest to Mossadegh in politics. Ayatulla Kashani is a zealot of Islam who has spent his life fighting the infidel British in Iraq and Iran. He controls the Teheran mobs (except those controlled by the Communists), and his terrorist organization assassinated Razmara. Hussein Makki controls the oil-rich province of Khuzistan, in which the Abadan refinery lies. When the British got out, Mossadegh put Makki in charge of the oil installations. Makki's view on oil: close up the wells, pull down the refinery and forget about it. Neither Makki, Kashani...