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...that a "settlement" is any more likely this week than it was last week or last month. One significant change in the situation: Premier Mohammed Mossadeq-who has been running the show from his cot, summoning Western diplomats, cowing the Iranian Parliament with his National Front thugs, telling the Shah where he got off-has begun to slip. Fourteen deputies last week signed a manifesto protesting the Premier's policies, deriding the fiasco of oil nationalization. Sayid Zia Eddin Tabatabai, onetime Premier and wily old politician, set up an opposition, revived his National Will Party. The Shah...
...recent years, the Moslem secret societies (the Moslem Brotherhood, the Crusaders of Islam, the Arab Sacrifice League) have murdered: one King (Jordan's Abdullah) and one President; four Prime Ministers; two cabinet ministers; one police chief, one judge, and one army commander in chief. Near misses: one Shah, one Premier. Two agents of the Moslem Brotherhood were reported last week to be trailing King Farouk on the Riviera...
When Harriman emplaned a few days later, the Foreign Minister was at hand to say goodbye. The Premier sent a huge bouquet of pink gladioli for Mrs. Harriman. Among the many gifts: an Isfahan rug (for Truman) and an antique rifle (for Harriman) from the Shah...
Amiable Negotiator Stokes, whose nickname is "Slap & Tickle Dick," was not tickled. He snapped: "I am not a great believer in bargaining." Still, Mediator Harriman persevered. He saw the young Shah, who is reasonable but ineffectual. The Shah himself tried to conciliate Mossadeq, who finally blew up, said: "Do you want me to resign?" There it was; the Shah had to back down. The fact was that the oil dispute, which stretched back 20 years, had become for Iranians a cause beyond common sense. They desperately needed British technicians, and they could not possibly get along without British marketing...
...week's end, some 200 members of the fanatical Fedayan Islam charged through Teheran's streets to the Shah Mosque, knifing six policemen on the way, shouting: "Stokes, take your proposal to the grave with you." Mullah Kashani, spiritual leader of the terrorists, unblinkingly told Stokes, who came to pay a call: "Tell the British government that if Dr. Mossadeq deviates one iota from oil nationalization, the Iranian people will dispatch him to the next world...