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After 25 years of autocratic and often oppressive rule, during which he sought to make his feudal nation a modern society, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi began taking tentative steps toward political liberalization in 1976. He reined in Iran's notorious security police agency, SAVAK, eased censorship, and encouraged more open political debate. The reforms stilled some criticism by the country's intellectuals and student dissidents. But the changes also gave new life to opponents of the regime who now pose one of the gravest threats to the Shah's rule in the past 15 years. This year...
Discontent in Iran has periodically erupted among students, fomented by what the regime says are "Islamic Marxists," who want to overthrow the Shah. In addition, his rule is challenged by a group called the Unity of National Front Forces, a revived remnant of the old National Front of the late leftist Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, who was ousted after a showdown with the Shah in 1953. But the main thrust of the present opposition comes from the Shi'ite mullahs, religious leaders who are, in a sense, priests and theologians of Islam. Led by bearded, bespectacled Ayatullah Shariet-madari...
...present, the Saudis cooperate closely with both Egypt's Sadat and the Shah of Iran. Together the Saudis and Iranians, despite a certain amount of mutual distrust, serve as a restraining force to prevent Iraq from absorbing the small, oil-rich Persian Gulf state of Kuwait, as Baghdad would like to do. But the Saudis realize that if either Sadat or the Shah should be displaced by a more radical regime, their own security would be dangerously affected...
...built from hubs up in Milwaukee. The $64,500 Stutz Blackhawk VI starts out as a new wide-track Pontiac Grand Prix, which is sent to Turin, where Italian descendants of descendants of coachmakers handcraft a body of 18-gauge steel (twice the weight of Mercedes metal); the Shah of Iran is said to have ordered twelve of them...
...diverse powers as the Soviet Union, China, Pakistan and Iran, Afghanistan has traditionally pursued a neutral foreign policy, and the new regime endorsed that posture. Although Daoud had bargained for Soviet arms aid when he was Prime Minister, he had lately shown a distinct admiration for antiCommunists, including the Shah of Iran, with whom he dickered for a big aid program, and Saudi Arabia's King Khlid, whom he visited in February. Daoud's successors could want to replace his Western-tilted "neutrality" with a Soviet-leaning version...