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...when Ebtehaj resigned after an argument with the Cabinet. Moreover, at the time of Ebtehaj's arrest, no high official seemed prepared to admit responsibility for it; the Minister of Justice was ill and away from his office; the public prosecutor was nowhere to be found; Premier Ali Amini claimed he knew nothing of the case...
Some 500 government employees who have been drawing pay from several simultaneous jobs lost their sinecures. Chief sufferer: the chancellor of Shiraz University, who reportedly held twelve other high-salaried posts. Amini even dared to attack Ehsan Davaloo, Iran's caviar queen and intimate friend of short-tempered Princess Ashraf, twin sister of the Shah. Mrs. Davaloo was arrested and charged with having got her $450,000-a-year caviar concession by bribing officials...
Jeeping General. Just 24 hours before the start of nationwide strikes and demonstrations ordered by the powerful, left-wing National Front, nimble Premier Amini held a 90-minute conference with Front leaders, warned that 1) the Front was heavily infiltrated by Communist students and oil workers, and 2) should his government be brought down, it would be replaced by a military dictatorship headed by tough General Teymour Bakhtiar and supported by landlords and mullahs (Moslem religious leaders). General Bakhtiar makes no secret of his willingness, should the Shah call on him, to replace Amini's reformist program with simple...
...second thought, the National Fronters canceled the scheduled protest strikes. In turn, Amini promised them national elections just as soon as voters can be issued new identity cards to replace the dog-eared old ones which, in past rigged elections, enabled the dead to vote at least once and the living several times in different constituencies...
...Premier Amini also raised his voice loud enough to be heard in Washington. The sum of $40 million was needed instantly to stave off bankruptcy and collapse. In the past ten years, the U.S. has sunk more than a billion dollars into Iran in economic and military aid, but Washington will undoubtedly dig deep enough once more at least to keep Amini afloat...