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Waiting at the plane was Colonel Behzad Moezi, one of Iran's most accomplished pilots and a man with a remarkable background. He flew the Shah into exile in January 1979. But after growing sympathetic to the revolution, he returned to Iran and joined the Mujahedin. Suspected by the Ayatullah's entourage, Moezi in effect was grounded until war broke out with Iraq. Reinstated with the help of Banisadr, Moezi had flown more combat missions than any other Iranian pilot...
Flak-jacketed police then escorted the pair to Banisadr's old apartment in Cachan, a middle-class suburb of Paris, where he lived during most of his 16 years of exile from the Shah's regime. "I will stay here until the people [of Iran] find the path to democracy," Banisadr told a throng of reporters outside his home. At week's end he moved temporarily to a friend's home in northern Paris, apparently for security reasons...
...some real or imagined father. And while these feelings no doubt existed during the American Revolution, it is easy to suppose that this type of emotion may have been even more evident in rebellions against such historically domineering father figures--the French King, the Russian Czar, or the Iranian Shah. Shaw's concept about the patriots, then, is in no way trivial, but it may not be as illuminating as it first seems. The existence of the patriots' unresolved resentment against their natural and royal fathers cannot be seriously challenged; what still remains to be proved, however, is what converted...
...more than a decade of fierce and bloody battles with the Shah's secret police, the Mujahedin were renowned for fighting to the last bullet and then popping cyanide pills. But since the revolution they have displayed keen instincts for survival. After seizing some 70,000 weapons from armories when the Shah fell from power in 1979, they have bided their time, waiting for the proper moment to challenge the mullahs...
...Mujahedin hope the clergy's brutal crackdown will create sympathy for their cause, just as it occurred in the final years of the Shah's reign. In that sense, the mullahs seem to be playing into their hands. Firing squads-killed more than 50 "counterrevolutionaries" last week; raising to at least 153 the number of people executed since Banisadr was deposed as President on June 22. Jails are so packed that new suspects are no longer detained, just beaten and dumped in alleys. Laments a prominent Tehran lawyer: "Iran has become a horror movie...