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Wily, old (70) Ahmad Gavam reshuffled his Cabinet to include three members of the pro-Soviet Tudeh Party. What...
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...
...Teheran a Government spokesman announced that Armenians and others in Azerbaijan had rebelled against the Government; the insurgents were being armed from Russian trucks; the situation was "dangerous and painful." Leaders of the uprising were members of the new, separatist Democratic Party, an offshoot of the old Communist Tudeh Party...
...Russia's open backing of the anti-Government Tudeh Party. At Teheran's House of Russian Culture, a Tudeh member was recently permitted to make a savage attack on the Iranian Government. Nothing that happens in one part of the Near East can fail to affect the rest of that region, Russia's actions in Iran, especially taken together with her recent demands on Turkey, were important to more governments than Iran, more people than the Iranians...