Word: zahedi
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...Mossadegh's overwhelming control, the Shah's belated assertion of his constitutional prerogative was made to seem like an attempted coup, and Mossadegh, the usurper, to personify law & order. Belatedly, from a hideout in the mountains, a brave follower of the Shah's, General Fazlollah Zahedi, onetime Senator, proclaimed himself Premier. He had royal decrees from the Shah, he said, dismissing Mossadegh. As recently as a year ago, Teheran would have rung with the news; now it caused no stir...
...picked up Tamara, a faded femme fatale, Teheran's top belly dancer two decades ago, along with another dancer named Helene and a tall, hard Rumanian barmaid called Nelly. But they knew nothing, and were released. Then the cops went looking for-but could not find-General Fazlollah Zahedi, head of the Retired Officers' Association and an avowed anti-Mossadegh plotter. The government offered 500,000 rials (about $15,000) for information, and promised amnesty to anyone producing Afshartous...