Word: razmara
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...Troubleshooter W. Averell Harriman and Premier Mohammed Mossadeq got .together to try to patch up the oil crisis. Last week the nationalists accused Mossadeq of making too many concessions to resume negotiations with the British. The fanatically nationalist organization, Fedayan Islam, one of whose gunmen killed Premier AH Razmara last March, reportedly threatened Mossadeq's frail life. One day last week Mossadeq walked into the Parliament building to explain to a Senate session why he had agreed to negotiate once more. Said Mossadeq, his voice quavering and tears rolling down his cheeks: "I give the assurance that as long...
While covering a meeting of the anti-British Fadayan Islam, Bell ran into a strange sort of trouble. He and three other correspondents jeeped up to the Shah's Mosque, where a Fadayan fanatic had assassinated Prime Minister Ali Razmara. The crowd of Fadayans suddenly became a shouting, angry mob, surrounded the correspondents' jeep, beat on the window curtains and bounced the little car around. After three false starts down dead-end streets, the correspondents escaped. The cause of all the row: the rioters had thought that Bell was Winston Churchill...
When the Russians occupied Azerbaijan, Mohammed Mossadeq was in the front row of those calling for their expulsion. After the U.N. forced the Russians to evacuate, he turned his attention to his old enemy, the British. He still opposed any pro-Russian gestures, like Premier AH Razmara's $20 million trade treaty with Moscow, but Red expansion worried him far less than British exploitation of Iran...
Three weeks after moderate Premier Ali Razmara was assassinated last March by a member of the extremist Fadayan Islam, the old dissenter got his unconditional nationalization program through Parliament by unanimous vote. He was asked by Parliament to be Prime Minister. Though "sick and old," he accepted, bowing, as he said, to the demands of the majority...
There was need for haste. Fadayan Islam was acting ominously. Day before, its young (27), wild-eyed leader, Seyed Safavi, secretly met a United Pressman in a mud hut in Teheran's outskirts, there proudly announced that he personally was responsible for the assassination of Premier Razmara (TIME, March 19). Asked, "Has Your Eminence other persons on your list?" Safavi replied: "There are quite a few who must be pushed down the incline to hell." Added Safavi: "There are 5,000 people who would immediately give their lives at my command...