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...chaos grows at home, Iranian exile organizations of all political stripes are staging protests and demonstrations around the world. The spectrum of the organizations runs from monarchists like the Azadegan group, to centrists who support onetime Iranian Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar (currently in exile in France), to a branch of the Marxist-Leninist Fedayan-e Khalq guerrilla organization. Their common aim: to build international opposition to Khomeini...
...shah left Iran in January 1979, and the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took power following a provisional governments headed by Shahpour Bakhtiar and Mehdi Bazargan. Sullivan wrote in the current issue of Foreign Policy that Brezezinski asked him over an open international telephone line "whether I thought I could arrange a military coup against the revolution...
There had been earlier warnings of the President's attitude toward unauthorized disclosures. On Feb. 5, 1979, CBS-TV carried a report that Administration officials were worried, and rightly so, about the stability of the government of then Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar in Iran. On Feb. 6, Carter called in 16 top State Department officials for what several described as a "tirade." With Vance standing by, the President told Vance's subordinates, "If there are any leaks out of your area, I am going to fire you, whether or not that's fair." Then Carter stalked...
...development. To make matters worse, Iran has reportedly been inciting the Kurds in northern Iraq to rebel against Baghdad. For their part, the Iranians suspect that the current border troubles are being aggravated by Iranian exile groups, including some rebels loyal to the Shah's last Prime Minister, Shahpour Bakhtiar, who fled Iran last year and is now living in France...
...bets. During the revolution, he tried to ensure that the instruments of the Shah's power-the secret police and the army -would remain intact and would merely shift allegiance to the clerics. He also tried to arrange a meeting between the Shah's last Prime Minister, Shahpour Bahktiar, and Khomeini, but the Ayatullah flatly refused...