IRAN: Blame the British

"Incipient terrorism" is rife in Iran, a Ntw York Timesman reported last November. He was expelled from the country for saying so. The man who kicked him out, a noisy nationalist named Hussein Fatemi, is Premier Mossadegh's right bower. Fatemi fancies himself a newsman (he edits Teheran's xenophobic Bakhtar Emrooz). He helped light the fires which roasted the British out of Abadan.

Last week, Fatemi went to a Moslem cemetery outside Teheran to address a nationalist gathering at the tomb of Mohammed Massoud, an Iranian newspaperman killed by terrorists in 1948. Fatemi had just reached the climax, declaring: "What is life...

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