Word: tudeh
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...week ended, the room left for maneuver and compromise had almost vanished. Now, even if Mossadeq wanted to, and he didn't, he dared not back down. Nationalization was still a highly popular slogan in Iran. The Communists-inspired Tudeh Party had easily whipped up 10,000 demonstrators in Teheran to shout "Death to Truman" and "Death to [U.S. Ambassador Henry] Grady." At the first sign of government weakness, the extremists would try to take over. But if the government didn't back down, its essential oil revenues would dry up and chaos would take over...
...point of bankruptcy. On July 1, the 60,000 oil workers would have to be paid. No one knows where the money would come from. The immediate danger in Iran: unemployment, riots that Mossadeq might not be able to control. Waiting for just such a chance: Iran's Tudeh (Communist) party, the best organized political group in Iran. Said a Cassandric London Foreign Office official: "Once again, Russia may get a satellite without moving a single...
...Deed Is Done. The National Frontists were goaded by the fact that the Communist Tudeh party was trying hard to take over the popular anti-British movement, was yelling that the Nationalists were selling out to the British. Without notice to the Premier, Dr. Mohamed Mossadeq, Frontist leader and Majlis (Parliament) speaker, called a meeting of the parliamentary oil commission, rammed through a report that recommended immediate expropriation of A.I.O.C. The Majlis unanimously made the report the law of the land, provided for a commission to work out details within three months. Majlis members knew that dissent would invite assassination...
...Iranian government. He is anti-Russian as well as anti-British, only slightly less anti-American. There is no evidence that the new Premier's government will be able to operate nationalized oilfields-or even maintain order in the country. Iran trembled with reports that the Tudeh party was getting arms from across the Russian border, that violent demonstrations were being plotted...
...spite of the best efforts of Razmara and the Shah,* Iran's economy began sliding downhill. As unemployment grew, Iranians tended to blame the whole mud dle on British imperialism. Tudeh party leaders and Mohammedan fanatics of the National Front joined in spreading the be lief that nationalization of oil would end Iran's troubles...