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That echoed Daoud's own coup in 1973. His target then was his cousin and brother-in-law, King Mohammed Zahir Shah, whom he had once served as prime minister. While the king was abroad for medical treatment, Daoud and a group of military insurgents−including the then and still obscure Col. Kadir−overthrew the Zahir monarchy, which Daoud condemned as corrupt and ineffective. But the Zahir family kept a tight hold on the top jobs and other spoils of power, and this time Col. Kadir vowed to throw them out once...
Berahini and Chomsky rebutted the ISA speaker. Berahini said that neither he nor the ISA represent the people of Iran, "the people who were fighting in the streets of Tabriz." He defended his credentials as a poet and an activist against the Shah, and said his goal at MIT was to expose the "violation of human rights" and plight of Iranian political prisoners to the American people...
Chomsky added that the object of the CIAFI meeting was not to advocate violent revolution in America against the Shah, but to inform Americans about the situation in Iran and to put pressure on the U.S. government to end American financial and military assistance to Iran...
...feasible to build revolution against the Shah in the United States. It is feasible to expose Iranian repression here and build pressure to end support for that regime," he said...
...group is trying to expose the Shah, one group here is trying to denounce the other. I have no doubt which I support, and no doubt which I would support were I working for the Shah...