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Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Persia, lit cigarette after cigarette with shaking hands as he stood on the tarmac of Teheran's Mehrabad airport one evening last week. At ten-minute intervals, planes glided in to land. None of them brought the news the Shah was waiting to hear: word of his missing brother, 32-year-old Prince Ali Reza, heir to the Iranian throne...
...Henderson moved on to Teheran to cope with another difficult Asian, the wily weeper, Mohammed Mossadegh...
Inside the grim, guarded barracks of the Teheran 2nd Armored Division ten shabby prisoners ate a dinner of stew and rice. They were the first to be convicted among 612 Tudeh plotters arrested, last September for planning a Communist revolution. Now they sat under sentence of death. Yet they seemed optimistic: this was Iran after all. where the ins do not ordinarily kill the outs-on the theory that the roles might some day be reversed. The ten had appealed their death sentences, and looked to the young Shah for reprieve...
...behavior interested the colonel; ten years before. Ali had resigned his commission, saying that "the army is rotten through and through"; since then he had held influential, behind-the-scenes jobs in the Red Tudeh Party. In 1946, Ali was liaison man in Teheran for the short-lived Azerbaijan Soviet republic. Knowing all this, Colonel Sepahpur was suddenly curious to know the contents of Ali's worn suitcase. The colonel grabbed and hefted it. "This suitcase seems very heavy for a sick man to carry," the colonel grunted...
Last week, with most of the ring in jail, the government lifted censorship slightly, revealing that it had arrested 400 officers for "working in the interests of a foreign power." "Almost all ... have confessed to their crime of treason," added Teheran grimly...