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...brand President Carter indecisive over the downfall of the Shah is absurd. Only by heaping brutality onto brutality could the Shah have been saved. The real problem is not Carter's supposed confusion, but the confusion of Americans over what type of President they want...
...absence of freedom." "We fought for freedom with the men," one woman explained. "None of us knew freedom would come with chains." Political fashions were changing fast: many of the women now denouncing the veil as a mark of repression gladly wore the all-covering chador as an anti-Shah symbol during the revolution...
...twelfth anniversary of the death of Mossadegh, the nationalist Prime Minister who forced the Shah to briefly flee Iran before being toppled by a CIA-assisted coup in 1953, a crowd including many Khomeini critics gathered in Ahmadabad (pop. 800), 60 miles northwest of Tehran. At a rally outside the brown brick house where Mossadegh is buried, his grandson-in-law, Dr. Hedayatollah Matine-Daftary, called for the creation of a National Democratic Front. Its program: a referendum to abolish the monarchy followed by an extended debate on the new constitution. Matine-Daftary also favors home rule for ethnic minorities...
...religious leaders' hardening determination to reign-and the spreading uneasiness about this among their erstwhile allies against the Shah-promises trouble. One respected Iranian political analyst, Fariborz Atapour, has forecast that a civil war will begin within two weeks. Writing in the daily Tehran Journal, he complained, "We know that a new constitution is about to be imposed on us, but since we do not know what it contains we cannot contest it. We can merely protest against the undemocratic way that the entire revolutionary aftermath is being handled." Given the theocratic rule now taking shape in Iran, Atapour...
Still pursuing the top figures on its long enemies list, the Tehran regime announced last week that the deposed Shah and other members of the Pahlavi family would soon be tried by an Islamic Revolutionary Court for treason, corruption and illegal transfer of funds abroad. The possible trial site: a sports hall in the Iranian capital that, with a capacity of 12,000, would be ideal for a classic show of revolutionary justice...