Word: tudeh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major Fateh, commanding the battalion, clamped down martial law, seized Najafi and his chief aide, and ordered them shot. But as dawn broke, Fateh's superior officer, mindful of Tudeh influence at Teheran, stayed the executions. After three tense days of negotiations, a temporary compromise was patched up and the plant reopened...
Heads Up. On a blistering morning last month, a small army of Tudeh pickets deployed at the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s plant in Abadan on the Persian Gulf, and paralyzed one of the world's biggest refineries, chief source of the British Navy's fuel. Their Communist-trained leader, Najafi, had just given officials a 16-point ultimatum asking better pay, housing, transportation and hospitalization for the company's 70,000 workers (about half of Iran's industrial labor). When the company refused to talk, the pickets beat up would-be strikebreakers, confiscated company...
Through the day, more & more workers joined the Tudeh men and tempers rose with the mercury, which hit a Zoroastrian 160°. By nightfall, when officials still refused to negotiate-the mob's fury burst like a rogue oil gusher...
Local police quavered impotently as gangs overran the town, stoned, knifed and clubbed Europeans and non-Tudeh Persians, and pillaged and wrecked their homes. Then, at the riot's height, a band of 400 desert pirates crossed the muddy Shattel-Arab, raided the bazaar section and fled back across the river with their loot...
Knife-wielding Tudeh toughs slew three other sheiks, impaled heads of victims to inflame the mob. By the time an infantry battalion got Abadan under control, a score were dead, 150 wounded...