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Mossadegh's visit seemed to have achieved only one concrete result-to widen the disagreement between the U.S. ; and Great Britain over Mossadegh himself. Washington regards him as an honest fanatic who is hard to deal with, but preferable to the Communist Tudeh Party which might take over Iran if he should fall. London regards Mossadegh distastefully as a man who humiliated Britain, broke a contract, and cannot be trusted. Also, says Whitehall, he is a second-rate politician whose only stock in trade was nationalization of oil. To continue such a second-rater in office when Iran...
...Communist Tudeh (masses) Party was busy. In recent months, droves of Russian agents have been sneaking across Iran's all but unguarded northeastern border. Their mission: to stir up riots and mastermind the revolution when Iran is judged ripe to be taken over. Of the same stock and tongue as northern Iranians, the agents from Russian Turkistan are well-trained and well-heeled. The agents steer clear of the big Russian embassy on Churchill Avenue, and get their orders from the Rumanian legation...
...Tudeh Party was outlawed in 1949, but is actually stronger than ever, working through such thinly disguised aliases as "The Society to Fight Imperialistic Oil Companies in Iran," and "The Society for Freedom of Iran...
...first act as Foreign Secretary, called home Ambassador Sir Francis Shepherd from Teheran to talk things over. In Teheran, after the British elections, crowds tore down the street signs on Churchill Avenue. The government ordered them back up, and blamed the whole thing on the outlawed Communist Tudeh Party...
...they succeed (despite his troubles Mossadeq, fainting fits, tears and all, is still immensely popular in Iran), it is far from likely that a "settlement" would result. Far more probable is a steady downhill slide of Iran's economy, with inflation, unemployment and rioting, exploited by the Communist Tudeh Party...