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Twice last week, U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson closeted himself with Iran's new Premier Fazlollah Zahedi for discussions of "urgent matters," meaning dollars. Then he hurried back to the big, red brick U.S. embassy in Teheran, where his staff, in shirtsleeves, worked full speed. Messages winged between Teheran and Washington, between Washington and London. The West's diplomats faced an opportunity they had muffed once before. The challenge: to convert Iran's wondrous reprieve into a sustained survival. The need: to support Iran's economy until it can support itself...
...still enjoys enormous personal popularity as one of the country's most honest, sincere and courageous patriots. One western-minded Iranian, critical of Mossadegh in the past, now says: 'There were some very bad men leading Mossadegh astray. But compare them to some of the people Zahedi has just named to his Cabinet and they don't look...
...General Zahedi still has things under control: Mossadegh's chief lieutenants have fled to the hills, and the underground Tudeh Communists to their holes. But, though he has ended chaos, Zahedi must now restore stability. One who talked fairly confidently of the future was the young Shah, back on his throne. He told a group of Mullahs: "While returning from Rome in my plane, I had a feeling that I was a completely new man in every respect...
Appointed a Senator by the Shah, Zahedi held automatic immunity from arrest. In October 1952, Mossadegh dissolved the whole Senate, apparently in order to nab Zahedi. Under arrest, the general was still a nuisance; he roamed his old haunts at the Interior Ministry and police headquarters, issuing orders and communiques. After a month of it, Mossadegh set him free...
Last April, when assassins murdered Mossadegh's police chief, the dragnet immediately went out for Zahedi, who took sanctuary in the Majlis for six weeks. When Mossadegh dissolved the Majlis, Zahedi fled secretly to the home of the commander of the Shah's Imperial Guards and continued to plot against Mossadegh...