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...crimson tent was set up in the muddy Maragheh plain in honor of the royal presence. Baggy-pants peasants and their red-cheeked women and children crowded close to stare at Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Iran, resplendent in the green uniform of army commander in chief. Suddenly, the Shah asked for the microphone, delivered an impromptu talk to the crowd. "I've been in this land reform business for over ten years," he said. "It's now reached its decisive stage. Believe me, it is no honor to be King of a poor and hungry people...
Penciled Mustache. The conspirators enlisted Iran's volatile students, who were already excited by a crisis of their own: the sacking of five secondary-school students on the official pretext that they had penciled whiskers on a picture of the Shah. (In fact, secret police said they were ringleaders of an outlawed Communist Party cell.) In Teheran and Shiraz, tough, rock-hurling students touched off the fiercest street fighting since 1952, when an earlier coalition of extremes maintained weepy Mohammed Mossadegh in power...
Support from the Shah. A French-educated intellectual and onetime (1956-58) Ambassador to Washington, Premier Amini, 54, has already vigorously pruned back Iran's crooked, overstuffed bureaucratic and military hierarchy, on occasion has irked the sensitive Shah, who controls the security troops and secret police.* By ordering them into action at Amini's request, instead of allowing his government to be swept into limbo like four others in the past five years, the Shah belatedly demonstrated support for his Premier's far-reaching reform program. The Shah also exiled General Teymour Bakhtiar, a tribal potentate...
...little doubt that the case had more to do with what Ebtehaj had been saying than what he had been doing. In speeches and to visitors, he had openly criticized the corruption, graft, and suppression of freedom on the highest levels of the Iranian government, even within the Shah's court. Word of his criticism reached Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi himself, leading some to suggest that Ebtehaj's real offense was lese majest...
...France knows well that you are a sovereign who is essentially charitable toward his people," said Charles de Gaulle to visiting Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran. Anyone who can count palaces also knows that the charitable Shah is immensely wealthy. Until he began parceling out the royal estates to needy peasants ten years ago, his lands alone measured almost 2,000,000 acres and included 2,000 villages. In 1958 the Shah set up the Pahlevi Foundation (orphanages, hospitals), and last week he transformed part of the foundation into an irrevocable religious trust. In the process, a list...