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Authorities said 25 anti-government protesters were killed and at least 56 injured in clashes with troops or supporters of the Shah, Iran's imperial ruler...
...demonstrators, incited by Moslem religious leaders, demanded the release of persons jailed for their opposition to the Shah...
Once again the Carter Administration finds itself in a moral dilemma: Do we tolerate the Shah's fascist savagery as long as he satisfies our anti-Communist needs...
...latest opposition of the Dark Ages-style Muslim mullahs to the Shah's government [Sept. 18] comes as no surprise to those of us interested in progress and in seeing Iran enter the 20th century. The mullahs' theocratic demand to watchdog parliament in the name of democracy is a mockery of the right to freedom. The mullahs ought to be reminded that their "overseeing" the parliament is just as repugnant as the ban on the freedom of the press, for which they criticize the Shah's regime. The separation of church and state is essential to democracy...
...Lebanese in Rome, announced that there was no evidence that the Imam had ever been in the Italian capital. Throughout the Middle East, there were rumors that the Imam, who was born in the Iranian holy city of Qum, had secretly returned to his homeland to join the anti-Shah underground. Alternatively, there was a rumor he had been kidnaped by the Shah's secret police...