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...instant before the assassin began firing, the Shah bolted for the palace door. A sergeant who ran protectively behind him was felled by eight bullets, but, before dying, he sent a burst from his own gun into Bakhshabadi. When the Shah reached his office, his assassin was dead and the phone was ringing. It was his wife, Queen Farah Diba, who had heard the shots and feared the worst. Said the Shah: "God has saved my life once again...
Assassination is endemic to Iran. In recent years, two Premiers have been murdered as well as a court minister. The Shah dodged bullets in 1949 when a man disguised as a cameraman opened up with a pistol: one bullet grazed the royal lip, another pierced his military cap, the third ripped off an epaulet...
Religious Hotbed. What brings out the fanatic in some Iranians these days is the Shah's "White Revolution," so called because he hopes to implement it without bloodshed. In a desperate effort to bring his country into the 20th century, the Shah has worked to introduce 1) land reform, 2) nationalization of the nation's forests, 3) sale of government factories to private businessmen, 4) profit sharing for workers, 5) amended electoral laws, and 6) mass education in 80% illiterate Iran through a national "literacy corps...
...process, the Shah has divested himself of all crown-owned villages, bought up 10,000 villages formerly owned by single individuals and redistributed the land to peasants. Women's rights have also been introduced, and six women were elected to Parliament...
...workers but were resented by great landowners, who fear the loss of their power. Similarly, the conservative Moslem mullahs dislike the freedom of women and the decree that shrine lands are to be shared among the peasants. It is probably significant that the soldier who tried to kill the Shah last week came from southern Iran near the nation's religious capital of Qum, a hotbed of anti-Shah feeling...