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...custom in Iranian elections, it was all pretty much a fraud. The twelve lucky winners had been decided before the first voter dropped his scrap of paper into the metal box. All were supporters of Premier Fazlollah Zahedi's government. The voters, with cynicism born of experience, knew what to expect. One Teheran elector dropped his ballot in the box, then salaamed deeply three times to the container. Asked why, he retorted: "This box is magic. One drops in a ballot for Mohammed and lo, when the box is opened, it becomes a vote for Fazlollah...
Knives & Ice Cream. Without waiting for the government to solicit his services, a fierce, black-bearded giant named Shaban Jafari cruised the polling places through the week with his ragged associates-the Society of Gallant Men-to flex his muscles on behalf of Zahedi candidates. Tough, rough Shaban, who is called the "Brainless One," came out of Teheran's slums, was once Iran's national wrestling champion. In the past he put his brawn to work for Mohammed Mossadegh, and in his behalf used to sack opposition newspaper offices. Now professing loyalty to Zahedi, the man who threw...
...Shaban eased his bulk into a café chair and poked at a dish of ice cream. His score for two days was 50 hospitalized, "mostly Communists." "We did better than the police and the soldiers together," Brainless boasted. "I know Shaban is a little rough," said Ardashir Zahedi, U.S.-educated son of the Premier, "but . . . he is against the Communists...
...gave the government more than the quorum of Deputies needed to summon the Majlis into session-the first since it was dissolved by would-be Dictator Mossadegh in August 1953. Desperate to get Iran's major resource, oil, into world markets after 30 months of near-bankruptcy, Premier Zahedi let it be known that the parliament's first big assignment will be to ratify a new oil agreement with Western companies...
...getting cooperation from the U.S. and Britain, who after three years are now, for a change, working together. Brit ain sent 16 hand-picked diplomats to Teheran; the mission showed none of the oldtime superciliousness, and impressed Zahedi. In London, the oil world's Big Eight-Anglo-Iranian, Royal Dutch Shell, Compagnie Française des Pétroles, New Jersey Standard, Socony, Texaco, Cali fornia Standard and Gulf-were secretly hammering out a tentative agreement to market Iran's oil through an international consortium. In Washington, the National Security Council directed the Attorney General to grant...