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Twice last week, U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson closeted himself with Iran's new Premier Fazlollah Zahedi for discussions of "urgent matters," meaning dollars. Then he hurried back to the big, red brick U.S. embassy in Teheran, where his staff, in shirtsleeves, worked full speed. Messages winged between Teheran and Washington, between Washington and London. The West's diplomats faced an opportunity they had muffed once before. The challenge: to convert Iran's wondrous reprieve into a sustained survival. The need: to support Iran's economy until it can support itself...
...Hangover. But how much time is there? From Teheran. TIME Correspondent James Bell reported: "There is increasing pro-Mossadegh talk now that the shock of the coup has abated. No one I've talked with outside the Cabinet and court had a bad word to say about the old man. He still enjoys enormous personal popularity as one of the country's most honest, sincere and courageous patriots. One western-minded Iranian, critical of Mossadegh in the past, now says: 'There were some very bad men leading Mossadegh astray. But compare them to some of the people...
...brigadier general at 25. Twice in his life he has been police chief of Teheran (pop. 1,000,000), a job which attests to his courage and his capacity for intrigue. During World War II, when the British and the Russians jointly occupied Iran and deposed the present Shah's father, Zahedi commanded the Isfahan military district in the South. The British got wind that Zahedi was masterminding...
...night last week, the two enemies met once again. As the general waited in his office in Teheran's Officers Club to accept Mossadegh's surrender, the Premier shambled in past lines of soldiers, his shoulders slumped, his eyes in tears. "Solh ba shoma [Peace be with you]," said the general. "You see the tables are turned...
...lobby, bolted over to introduce himself. By then he had been photographed so often with the Shah that the Princess said: "Oh, I recognize you from your pictures." Ehrman got her into a corner for another exclusive chat. Later, when the Shah decided to take 20 newsmen back to Teheran with him, he pointed to Ehrman saying: "The news of the new developments was brought to me by a newspaperman, and from then on, my hours were spent in studying the situation with the help of the free press of the world. I realize now more than ever how much...