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...ranking Shi'ite leaders and a few civilians and led by Khomeini, amounts to a parallel government, one that has not always bothered to let Bazargan know what it is doing. The Prime Minister was embarrassed last week to learn that without his knowledge, four more of the Shah's generals had been executed after being convicted in a secret tribunal authorized by the council. Worse yet, from Bazargan's viewpoint, the 10,000 to 15,000 heavily armed mojahedeen, who profess allegiance to the council, pay no heed to his government's commands. To curtail...
Watching Iran's turmoil from thousands of miles away in Morocco was one very interested observer: deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Iran's government, declared Foreign Minister Karim Sanjabi, would press for the Shah's extradition "until there is no place he can go except for Israel or South Africa." Indeed, the Shah's sojourn in Morocco may soon end. Last week his host, King Hassan II, formally recognized the Bazargan government. The crew of the Shah's royal 707 jet flew the plane, complete with its gold-plated bathroom fixtures, back to Iran...
Though it was scarcely any comfort for the Shah, a number of observers in Middle Eastern capitals now were beginning to wonder about the life expectancy of the Bazargan government. In Cairo, Egyptian officials were speculating that the Tehran regime might hang on for six months, but then would be toppled by leftists. Only time and events will tell whether Iranians can be persuaded that their new rulers have indeed "saved Iran...
...Israelis are eager for a settlement with Egypt that would allow them buyer's rights to crude pumping from the wells in Sinai and the Gulf of Suez. The Ayatullah's zealous denunciations of Israel raised fears that some of the sophisticated U.S. weaponry purchased by the Shah might eventually be lent or sold to an Arab confrontation state. As for Egypt, President Anwar Sadat has to worry about the impact of Islamic resurgence on his own discontented masses, and about his growing political isolation in the Arab world...
...triumphant welcome in Tehran was something of a shock, but it is no great surprise that the P.L.O. and the new Iranian government should be the best of friends. Ever since the early 1970s, Palestinian groups have been giving aid, training and arms to Iranian dissidents. It was the Shah of Iran who sold oil to the Israelis, who used it to power the tanks and planes that were fighting the Palestinians. Thus the Iranian enemies of the Shah became the Palestinians' natural allies. A number of them have fought with the guerrillas in southern Lebanon. Palestinian groups have...