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...next on the list. Still other former Premiers and armed forces commanders were subjected to televised interrogations that were little better than kangaroo court proceedings. The papers carried gruesome pictures of the murdered generals. Censorship was imposed by a regime whose leaders had always objected bitterly to the Shah's harsh treatment of the press. Newspaper editors received calls from a newly appointed communications commissar, warning them to reflect "a proper Islamic emphasis" in their papers...
...Bazargan's major problems is what to do with officials identified with the old regime. He and ex-Prime Minister Bakhtiar are longtime friends and colleagues in opposition to the Shah. For a while last week, Bazargan saw to it that Bakhtiar was given a secret refuge in Tehran. But after the British Broadcasting Corporation reported that he was aiding the ousted Prime Minister, Bazargan came under such strong pressure from pro-Khomeini forces that he had to surrender custody of Bakhtiar. Many educated Iranians feel that Bakhtiar was acting out of a sense of patriotic duty in accepting...
Whether or not Bakhtiar escapes death, others certainly will be subjected to the harsh justice of the revolution. Early last week Iran television presented interviews with some of the more notorious leaders of the Shah's regime. Three nights before he was executed, General Nematollah Nassiri, looking like a frightened rabbit, was interrogated by two local reporters. When he failed to respond fast enough to a question about who had ordered SAVAK to torture its prisoners, a masked militiaman prodded him and whispered, "Say the Shah, say the Shah." Nassiri wore a bandage on his head and talked...
...television "press conferences," disconcertingly reminiscent of Soviet show trials, went on nonetheless. Another victim brought out for questioning was former Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveida, who had been arrested by the Shah last November on assorted corruption charges. Hoveida looked ill, but more than held his own in sharp exchanges with Deputy Prime Minister Yazdi. Among other things, Hoveida made it clear to the audience that he had surrendered voluntarily to Khomeini forces after the guards of the prison where he was held had fled. "You didn't detain me," Hoveida said. "I came here voluntarily." Turning aside Yazdi...
...fedayeen's most spectacular feat was their brief capture of the American embassy. What were they trying to prove? The best guess is that having fought with Khomeini's forces against the Shah, the fedayeen were trying to cause friction between Khomeini...