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...Razmara, Iran's best postwar Premier, was attending a memorial to a recently deceased religious leader in the Mosque of the Shah. In the press of other business, Razmara had almost forgotten the ceremony and was hurrying in order not to be late. As he stepped briskly into the courtyard, a bearded young Moslem fanatic named Khalil Tahmassebi slid out of a crowd, got behind the Premier, opened fire. The first pistol bullet, which struck the back of Ali Razmara's head, was enough to cause instant death. Two other bullets hit him in the neck and chest...
...Bang-Up Job. Some of these efforts have good results. Last year the Shah picked as Premier his close friend, Ali Razmara, who had done a bang-up job as army chief of staff. The Majlis resents Razmara, as it resents any kind of effective government. "I have to spend 75% of my time fighting off intrigues," the new Premier said. In spite of the Majlis and the Princess Ashraf, Premier Razmara began getting things done...
Then the Shah, suspicious of Razmara's growing popularity, turned against him. He forced Razmara to take two cabinet members he did not want. Razmara's old army division was merged with the Imperial Guard, and many of Razmara's army friends were shifted out of key posts. Caught between the resentful Majlis and the suspicious Shah, Razmara is still hanging on, still serving his country well. (Princess Ashraf wants his job to go to an old friend of hers, Ali Soheily, now Iranian minister to London...
...When Razmara was chief of staff, he worked closely and well with a U.S. military mission. Today, Iran has a gendarmery of 20,000 and a conscript army of 130,000 scattered across the land to maintain internal security. Its stubby, wiry infantrymen wear U.S. uniforms or British battle dress, carry old U.S. bolt-action rifles. The government has bought $26 million worth of surplus U.S. military stocks, mainly M-24 tanks, light artillery and trucks. The two air brigades fly ancient British Audax and Hawker Hurricane fighters, plus a few P-47s. A tiny navy patrols along the Caspian...
...Iran. It was also an admission that Anglo-Iranian's old rate had been too low. Majlis (Parliament) members, who had always claimed the foreign company was cheating Iran, reacted violently. The fury of the Majlis' opposition brought forth the new reform government of Premier Ali Razmara, Iran's hardest-working, most honest regime in years. Last week, with defeat inevitable, the Razmara government prudently withdrew the Anglo-Iranian Oil proposal without waiting for a vote...