Word: teheran
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...streets, discredited old Mullah Kashani, a dormant demagogue seeking to regain his popularity, proclaimed a "day of mourning" and ordered his fanatics to don black arm bands in protest at the recognition of Britain. Only about 50 followers showed up next day in Teheran's bazaar, chanting "Down with Britain." At Teheran University, students rioted, and two were killed by troops...
...showing its sympathies, and the government was sorry that it had ever decided to try the old man publicly. Mossadegh vowed to take a whole month in his rebuttal; wearily the court decided to sit once a day instead of twice. In the end, went the gag around Teheran, the five military judges will throw themselves on the mercy of the defendant...
This was the table of operations: call a general strike, muster the mob in the labyrinthine municipal bazaar, then fight through central Teheran to Majlis Square, where the leaders would emerge and take charge. If all went well, the Black Spiders would incite army units to defect, the Reds would break out hidden stores of rifles and bazookas, and the general strike would turn into a revolution...
Agents Inside. The plan was worthy of the Moscow-trained coup d'état experts who prepared it, but for one fatal flaw: Major General Farhat Dadsetan, Teheran's smart military governor, knew all about it from his secret agents in the Resistance. He summoned his commanders, told them to avoid gunfire if possible, so as to deny the Reds martyrdom. But if they had to shoot, the troops were to shoot to kill...
...dawn, Nov. 12, one division of troops waited on Teheran's outskirts for orders, a mobile police reserve sat ready in trucks at central police headquarters, while in the expectant bazaar, blue-uniformed cops clustered thickly. As fast as troublemakers showed, the cops clubbed them, shoved them into cars, drove them off to jail. The police were indiscriminate but effective; the mob never got out of the bazaar. Casualties: two to five rioters dead, another 218 deported to bleak, boiling-hot Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf. General Dadsetan sat back at headquarters and smiled: "There...