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...striking pilots and crew to pick up the revolution's most important passenger. The army then surrounded the airport with tanks and closed it "until further notice." The next day troops ordered away the crew and 2,000 people who had come to the airport with Ayatullah Mahmoud Taleghani, Khomeini's spokesman in Iran, to see the plane leave for Paris. The group turned and left, chanting contemptuously, "Death to the Shah...