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August 27, 1953 — The Brooklyn Eagle
August 27, 1953 — The Brooklyn Eagle
| The Mossadegh Project | September 8, 2015 |
The Brooklyn Eagle’s post-coup pep-talk for the new Iranian Premier, Gen. Fazlollah Zahedi •
Iran’s Urgent Problems
Mossadegh has lived to learn something about the fickleness of mobs. He has reason to assume that he was their master. They had long been slavishly obedient to his tearful appeals, his histrionics, his guile. Now it is considered expedient to place him in the security of a prison for fear he might be torn to pieces by his old followers. His trial for his life should prove to be one of the great dramas of our time.
His successor, Gen. Fazollah Zahedi, [sic—Fazlollah] has the makings of a strong man. He is an extreme nationalist, an important requisite. He is violently anti-British and as strongly anti-Communist. He is basing the hope of his government on an eight-point program of social reforms designed to produce a higher standard of living for a traditionally impoverished and exploited people.
Sufficient money to enable the Shah and his new Premier to ride the first waves of the current storm may be expected from the United States. The government’s tenure will then depend upon the continued support of the army and the ability of the new Premier to arrange advantageous terms for the sale of oil without a far departure from the principles of nationalism.
Related links:
Iran Arraigns Ex-Dictator — Associated Press, October 4, 1953
Easing Iran’s Chaos — The Brooklyn Eagle, September 8, 1953
Basis For A Bargain — The Progress-Index, August 25, 1953
MOSSADEGH t-shirts — “If I sit silently, I have sinned”
