Word: reza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...object of this criticism is CIA Director Stansfield Turner, 55, who last week was being blamed by critics for the CIA'S failure to warn the White House months ago that Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was in danger of losing his throne. Only two days after the Shah went into exile, the House International Relations Committee began hearings on the Iran crisis and the CIA's inability to predict its outcome. Acknowledged a CIA official: "The agency will go through a wringer. We'll take our lumps...
...blue. In Tehran, the throngs were filling the streets to begin once more their daily demonstrations. If the protesters had looked upward, they would have seen a blue and white Boeing 727 swing over the city, circle once and turn away. The pilot of that plane was Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, taking a long, perhaps last look at the capital of his realm. For years he had lived under the illusion that he was a monarch beloved by his 34 million subjects; for years he had harbored the conviction that his leadership was bringing all the benefits of national wealth...
...scene, an aluminum pipeline traces its course like a splinter of light across the land, eventually becoming part of the maze of an oil refinery. Today in Khuzestan, ancient faith and modern wealth have blended into an irresistible political force. It has emasculated what is left of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi's influence and placed Khuzestan's wealth of oil and natural gas in the hands of one man: Ayatullah Khomeini. "Now we are a power," declared one strike leader. "We fought for it with the message of Khomeini in our hearts. We will restore the Koran...
Khomeini reportedly still maintains that the present government, which was appointed by Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi before he left the country for a presumed exile in the United States, is illegal. Khomeini has issued a call for his supporters to abolish Bakhtiar's government and form a Moslem spiritual republic...
...Bakhtiar receives a vote of confidence, it is expected that the way will be clear for Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlevi to leave the country later this week...