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Day after day they marched, tens of thousands strong, defiant chanting demonstrators surging through the streets of Tehran, a capital unaccustomed to the shouts and echoes of dissent. The subject of their protest was the policies of Iran's supreme ruler, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Some carried signs demanding his...
In any case, the fact is that Iran's own internal problems brought the Shah to the brink of disaster. As frustrations mounted over the months, Iranians turned to their Islamic religious leaders?the mullahs?who, as it happens, have deep grievances of their own. For centuries, the daily lives...
Among the mullahs inside Iran, the most powerful is Ayatullah Sharietmadari, a revered Islamic scholar who condemns violence but strongly opposes the Shah on constitutional and religious grounds (see box). Parliament, claims Sharietmadari, too often violates the precepts of Islamic law to the detriment of Shi'ite sensibilities. Gambling, prostitution...
THE SHAH is beginning to run scared. In response to the recent upheaval, he has ordered several cosmetic political reforms. He has shaken up his cabinet, ostensibly to make it more responsive to the conservative Moslems. He has also promised that all legal parties will be allowed to offer candidates...
* The imperial calendar dates from the founding of the Iranian monarchy by Cyrus the Great in 559 B.C., the Islamic from the Prophet Mohammed's Hegira from Mecca to Medina in A.D. 622.