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...Shah plots a careful course to keep the peace
Even before the quake struck, mourners were a common sight as families buried the victims killed two weeks ago during protests against the regime of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Martial law prevailed, and troops and tanks patrolled the streets of Tehran and eleven other cities to enforce a rigid 10 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew. At least eight curfew violators were shot dead for failing to heed orders to stop. Six soldiers and a civilian died in a fire fight in Tabriz after saboteurs attacked their patrol. Security was tightened around the offices and refineries of the giant National Iranian...
...Shah, facing the gravest threat to his throne in a quarter of a century, moved swiftly to quell the opposition that has been building against his regime over the past nine months. His policy was twofold: 1) to punish corrupt officials and subversives and 2) to demonstrate convincingly that Tehran's springtime of political liberalization, begun only a month ago, would continue...
...fast so they'd have room for all the fat cats." Several hundred other political dissidents, including the head of the Iranian Committee for Human Rights and his deputy and two mullahs-one with a bank account of $1.5 million-were charged with seeking to overthrow the Shah...
Frye suggested that an agreement may have been reached on the supply of oil to Israel during telephone conversations between Carter, Sadat and the Shah of Iran...