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...yellow brick house in Teheran. They had gathered to face the facts: the country was disintegrating economically and politically. Husky Firebrand Hussein Makki spoke up: "My dear Pishva [leader], unless you control the army, you will have no security." The group agreed that the Pishva should ask the Shah for control of the army...
...days later, 7 2-year-old Mossadegh faced 32-year-old Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Iran's well-meaning but weak monarch. He began naming the ministers for his new cabinet (TIME, July 21). "What about the War Minister?" the Shah asked. Replied Mossadegh: "I will take charge of the War Ministry, Sire...
...Hard Institution. The Shah frowned. He knew that his 140,000-man army, poorly equipped, indifferently disciplined and mottled with disaffection, was not much. But it was all that stood between him and the Mossadegh gang-the National Frontists, the religious extremists, the street mobsters. Said the Shah carefully: "The army is a hard institution to run. I think that a general enjoying my fullest confidence should be nominated...
After four hours of polite wrangling, Mossadegh hurried home, then wrote the Shah: "It is better that the next government should be organized by another person who has your confidence." He added a veiled warning: "In the actual situation, it is not possible for the Iranian people to be victorious in the struggle which it has begun...
...kept trailing after him. The Majlis had overwhelmingly voted him in, but only after electing an anti-Mossadegh speaker. The 57-member Senate concurred, 14 to 1, but only because the majority present in the half-empty chamber sat on its hands during the balloting. The young Shah pulled wires to get Mossadegh back in, but lectured him, during a private luncheon, on the urgent need for restoring economic order. The people supported him, but worried as unemployment spread, public works were abandoned, and government payrolls fell behind...