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On a cold, starlit night last month a group of 36 strangers was ushered into the Tehran Hilton with all the security precautions that once attended the transfer of the Iranian crown jewels. While plainclothesmen and a detachment of Islamic Guards armed with machine guns hustled the group through the...
The group was no delegation of politicians from a friendly Muslim country. TIME has learned that it was a team of highly professional, meticulously schooled intelligence agents from the Soviet Union invited to Iran by the ruling Islamic Republic Party (I.R.P.). The agents were the first among several KGB and...
The decision to enlist the Soviets for help was a wrenching turn for the Islamic fundamentalists who run the ruling I.R.P. The party's strict religious orientation requires its leaders to denounce atheist Communism. But the I.R.P. felt forced to act when it was unable to organize an efficient...
The Soviets have purged the central committee of the Tudeh of what they call "bourgeois-minded reformists" and put in their own people. The security agents have set up shop in Saltanatabad, a northern suburb of Tehran, in the former headquarters of SAVAK, the notorious secret police of Shah Mohammed...
Rivalry between the Islamic Guards, the clergy's military arm, and the regular armed forces gave Moscow another valuable opportunity to exploit Iran's increasingly unstable situation. Fear of a strong opposition and disloyalty in the armed services has led such clergymen as Hojja-toleslam Ashgar Mousavi Khoeiny...