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...defy Mossadegh, the Majlis voted to confiscate the $16 million fortune of his principal opponent, ex-Premier Ahmed Qavam (now a fugitive), leaving Qavam's wife & child $160,000. Teheran's airport was crowded with Mossadegh adversaries rushing off for "medical attention" in Europe. Among them: the Shah's twin sister Princess Ashraf, the president of the Majlis, the former army chief of staff...
...next day, the weepy, faint-prone old man was back in power. He had beaten Qavam and the Shah, who now gave Mossadegh the War Ministry he had earlier denied him. And he had beaten the British, even if his victories had left his country near anarchy and his people impoverished...
...fight in the street alongside them, against the army and the police. Makki summed up the instructions: "Launch a series of violent demonstrations no matter what their outcome-even revolution." The first was scheduled for Monday, with new outbreaks on each succeeding day until old Qavam or the young Shah yielded...
...Weak Shah. Qavam moved to counterattack. He hurried to the Shah, proposed that the Majlis be dissolved, and outlined plans to jail the mob leaders. At this point, the fight for Iran might have gone either way. But the attacks on the monarchy had scared the Shah; moreover, he feared, and not without reason, that Qavam's vigorous measures might cause defections in the army. The weak Shah refused the dangerous but necessary gamble...
...troops and police, who replied with tear gas and gunfire. At least 20 persons, and perhaps many more, were killed. The Communists linked arms with members of the pro-fascist Pan-Iranian and Sumka parties and led the rioters in chanting a new slogan: "Down with the Traitor Shah." But by late afternoon the exhausted demonstrators began trickling back to their hovels...