IMPENDING POLITICAL CRISIS IN IRAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01443R000200320012-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 31, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: June 15, 1954
• Content Type: BRIEF

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1. Shah
US is in"
at
A. Shah's support of present government has been
dtsagreeaeents to
Zabedi over military matters and
patronage.
Shah characteristically facers a at
C. Shah asked Ambassador Henderson on 27 May wrbt
r such a change would sae
erson assured shah that Zahadi has
that a chae of prime inist,rs now would
damaging to all negotiations.
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ulster.
F. seaara laf Henderson he would retain Zabodi in interest
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of all settle*ent.
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bly hedi. His intention to remove Zahedi
,y have been strengthened thereby
spite assurances
in Iran; nevertheless, cozranie
clean and wider-
able dishonesty exists in his government.
abahfs support
group of coaspirato
f Sao
Zashani 19
deputy.
qai
and his small leftist Workers Party co-operating closely.
latch,
of his former sub-
active is anti-Zahedi intrigue-', aaad Mullah
hehr .Igbai is amber of Arta cabal; recently
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on shah's first chaicet for Was
C. *efaraist group---Roshanfekr__sooking suppo
*srmara lieutenant, dajadi, through
ya
0. Current interruption oil
eistasce mOveme9 nt--sow c
and other former prey-gassadeeq elements
Alayar
cabinet sombe
tios
itine sp bos.
;aged
d of Iran Party
dor to S and ea
tively supporting the R sbaafekr
ignu; however
,- Aware
A. Shah's attacks on corrwp
gea Wadi government.
of Intri
eee,
an defensive and he agreed sacrifice Panahi,, able
Seven-Year Plan Organization.
weigh
Is situation.
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Zahedi has ordered secret police redouble efforts to
track an
government intrigues.
C. Be is reported
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to have
sent two checks of $1,000 each to two Majlis members who
photographed tkam and returned them.
D. General Bakhtiar, military governor of Tehran, doubts
the government can last until oil settlement.
Koval of Zahedi Would Probably Preclude any tail Settlement
on Presently Proposed Lines. It might result in a;
breakdown of negotiations.
complete
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