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...tottered into the improvised courtroom at Saltanatabad barracks, seven miles outside Teheran. Pallid, his bony frame trembling beneath two overcoats and a pair of wool pajamas he lurched dramatically to the defendant's bench and lay there on his side, gasping for air, his throat fluttering. He croaked feebly for Coramine (a stimulant) and sipped it from a cup, each lip movement seeming his last...
According to the plans, on Thursday, Nov. 12, at 10 a.m., the street mob was to take over Teheran, whereupon Mohammed Mossadegh was to take over the government. Meeting in secrecy, Mossadegh's lieutenants had worked out the grand plan. First they formed a secret National Resistance Movement, uniting, among others, discontented rich and powerful bazaar merchants, university hotheads and rebellious army officers of the secret Black Spider Committee. Then they got together with the outlawed Communist Tudeh party, setting up an all-powerful six-man committee to run the revolt...
...Teheran's new government last week gave its people the first inkling of how much Mohammed Mossadegh's "victory" over the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. had cost the country...
...placed the blame for the error squarely on the Russians, but urged that Hans should be compensated for his sufferings. Said Hans: "I am grateful . . . That they paid is proof that there is good will." ¶Looking pale and wan, Russian Ambassador Anatoly Lavrentiev attended a diplomatic reception in Teheran, his first public appearance since he disappeared three weeks ago amid reports that he had shot or poisoned himself in despair over Communism's harsh setback in Iran (TIME, Sept. 14). Lavrentiev, said embassy spokesmen, had simply been...
...stream of orders and exhortations has begun flowing from the royal palace. The Shah sent crackling orders to Premier Zahedi to complete immediately an Isfahan irrigation project planned to bring thousands of acres into cultivation. He put pressure behind other reforms: a combined water supply-hydroelectric scheme for Teheran, completion of the much-needed Teheran-Tabriz railroad, low-cost workers' housing. He told Zahedi and Finance Minister Ali Amini to speed the return of the royal family estates, taken by Mohammed Mossadegh four months ago to thwart the Shah's plans to parcel out the land to landless...