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...outlawing of the Tudeh Party...
Winston Churchill summoned his cabinet for a three-hour emergency session last week. Topic: Iran. The word afterward was that the British were coming around to Washington's view that the fall of weepy Premier Mohammed Mossadegh would probably bring the Communist Tudeh party into power. They no longer saw any real alternative, now that the last pro-British Premier (Ahmed Qavam) had been shoved aside, the young Shah rendered helpless, and the Iranian army brought under Mossadegh's control. But they still shrank from going to Mossadegh's aid and on his terms: helping...
...hours they considered and rejected proposals. Qavam might be assassinated-but he was a hard man to get a shot at. They might stir up tribal revolts-but that would take too long. Finally, they agreed on a desperate, dangerous move: invite the Red toughs of the outlawed (Communist) Tudeh Party -whom they knew by bitter experience to be militant and well led-to fight in the street alongside them, against the army and the police. Makki summed up the instructions: "Launch a series of violent demonstrations no matter what their outcome-even revolution." The first was scheduled for Monday...
Teheran voters last week gave Premier Mohammed Mossadegh his newest triumph. In three days of balloting for the Majlis, they elected eleven of Mossadegh's twelve National Front candidates, crushed the threat of the Communist Tudeh Party and whipped his No. 1 parliamentary opponent, wealthy landlord Jamal Imami. The more violently fanatic the candidate, the mere votes that candidate polled. Topping the list: Firebrand Hussein Makki, the Huey Long of the Frontists, closely trailed by Religious Leader Ayatulla Kashani, boss of the gunman-terrorist wing of the Frontist Party. With only one-sixth of the election returns...
Results: 1) the West lost the Iranian oil supply; 2) the Iranian government lost the oil payments; 3) this loss stopped all hope of economic progress in Iran and disrupted the political life of the country; 4) in the ensuing confusion, Iran's Tudeh (Communist) Party made great gains which it hoped to see reflected in the national elections, due to begin this week...