Word: razmara
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...violent crusade of the National Front for immediate nationalization of Iran's oil, the threats against those who disagreed, had brought political assassination back to Iran and had made Iran's Communists bold. Last week, under martial law after the murders of Premier AH Razmara and Education Minister Dr. Abdul Zanganeh, Teheran was quiet, but police picked up 25 gun-toting...
...latest instalment on our political debt came two weeks ago with a rumpus which left pro-American Premier Razmara dead, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company almost nationalized, and Iranian nationalism more rabid than ever. The United States policy of supporting any government that opposed Communism had backfired completely...
...meant that the Majlis was intimidated by the assassination of Premier AH Razmara, who had opposed nationalization of oil.* That was true, but it was only part of the story that had led up to one of the worst calamities to the anti-Communist world since the Red conquest of China...
...Loophole for Hope. The assassination of Razmara and fanatic threats of other killings would not have had so spectacular an effect on the Majlis if anti-British feeling had not been smoldering for years in Iran. It began to flare two years ago when Sir William Fraser, board chairman of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. (which has a concession for all oil production in southern Iran), offered to double the royalties paid to the Iranian government...
...spite of the best efforts of Razmara and the Shah,* Iran's economy began sliding downhill. As unemployment grew, Iranians tended to blame the whole mud dle on British imperialism. Tudeh party leaders and Mohammedan fanatics of the National Front joined in spreading the be lief that nationalization of oil would end Iran's troubles...