Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 22, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday june Bani Sadr s fall part of predictable drive to extremism by John Kif her . Times news service Beirut Lebanon barely 17 months ago Abolhassan Bani Sadr with a stunning 75-per-cent landslide was elected Iran s first president. Yesterday he was in hiding his enemies in parliament having voted him incompetent his remaining supporters right ing last ditch Street Battles mobs crying for his death and a warrant out for his arrest. The turnabout is perhaps less surprising than it seems on the surface. The fall of Bani Sadr s hapless presidency is rooted in a common revolutionary experience As Well As in the Peculiar history of Iran which Lent passion to the struggle Between the liberals surrounding Bani Sadr and the Mullah led islamic Republican party. Writing in 1938, the historian Crane Brin ton in a classic work entitled the Anatomy of revolution that the scholarly Bani Sadr himself has been recommending to intimates in recent months posited a series of stages through which he traced the developments of the american French and russian revolutions As Well As the Cromwel Lian revolution of the 1640s in England. Dual the thesis briefly of an almost inevitable drive from moderation to extremism neatly parallels the Progress of Iran s Revo Lution to Date. With the overthrow of the old regime Brinton suggests the moderate revolution Ary forces take Over what remains of the Structure of government. However they Are almost immediately confronted with what he describes As the problem of dual so the existence of other More revolutionary and hence perhaps More legitimate centres of Power. This was the dilemma facing the provisional government of prime minister Mehdi Bazargan until it because of the seizure of the american embassy and Bani Sadr through most of his period of prominence. The government was undercut by the secret clergy dominated revolutionary Council Bani Sadr taint of secularism which was the last word and by such revolutionary organs As the. Neighbourhood to mites that meted out vigilante order. While Bani Sadr was rendered powerless almost from the beginning so that yester Day s action was More of a coup de Grace than a coup d eat this was the situation in Iran. While the moderates held the ostensible office of government the clerics were build ing their Power through the new revolution Ary institutions the revolutionary Council itself the militant students the to mites the pasaran or revolutionary guards and through the loosely organized islamic re publican party with its network of mosques and Friday prayer leaders who i shiite tradition speak on political issues. I it is my commitment to make sure. That your new car is thoroughly checked by my sales representative before delivery that All repairs pass our thorough Quality control checks that after service work you Are contacted to ensure your satisfaction. In other Charlie Saladin president 5, general manager Vlf St. Madison Ness i blk. West of Polo Park. Pm. 888-0260 i award Winner now Low knife non Stop every monday wednesday Friday depart Winnipeg nv204 . Non Stop Arr. Yellowknife ._________ depart Yellowknife nv203 . Non Stop Arr. Winnipeg . 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The struggle on one level was Between the westernized exiles who surrounded the revolutionary Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Kho Meini near Paris in the last stages of the Shah s overthrow primarily Bani Sadr and former foreign ministers Sadegh Ghotb Zadeh and Ibrahim Yazdi and the local mullahs who led the neighbourhood to mites and revolutionary guards in setting up their own Brand of government. While Many of the liberals were devout moslem to the fundamentalists they were tainted with Western ideas with secularism that threatened the traditional Powers of Reli Gion they wanted restored. Part of Bani Sadr s failure however was personal. While his main opponent Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti the Leader of the islamic republicans and chief Justice of the supreme court proved a Tough and wily in tighter Bani Sadr who seemed the caricature of a diffident academic was never Able to get his act together. Bani Sadr s major failure was in not developing a party Structure or any other institution to support him. His election was. In a sense a Fluke because the main islamic Republican Candi dates were withdrawn at the last minute. In office he failed to consolidate his Posi Tion. Bar-1-Sadr was swiftly undercut by Behest a ruling mat the constitutional requirement that parliament approve the prime minister appointed by the president actually meant they could choose him. Bani Sadr was forced to accept the islamic Republican party s Man Mohammad All Rajai whom he termed unqualified by the clergy dominated parliament. Lost Khomeini s ear most importantly Bani Sadr appeared to have lost the ear of still the sole source of political legitimacy in revolution Ary Iran who had often in the past kept the contending forces in balance. Angered by the continued infighting the Ayatollah threatened to Cut off All their then he stripped Bani Sadr of his position As com Mander in chief leaving him vulnerable to the final attack. In Brinton s thesis the final stage of revolution is a backlash against the reign of virtue and terror in which the extremists Are overthrown and some of the gains of the revolution consolidated. A crowd in front of Iran s parliament urges president Bani Sadr s impeachment. Afghan rebels claim support received from soviet muslims of not aiming their rifles when fighting the guerrillas. Daily Telegraph London one such message said please Islamabad Pakistan the the russians. If your Resis afghan guerrilla movement has re Tance lasts one More Vear. To received messages of support from will be open disturbances. The Al the uzbek said he and his mus will the Force of islam the deep beliefs of inside soviet Central Asia Accord read heavy economic Burden will in comrades were searched by Urh of the nation ant Cheri of ing to a resistance fighter from Worsen. We Are with soviet officers every nigh to wer Maimana in the North of afghanis in addition an afghan army not allowed to carry More than 100 an. Soldier who fled the army and afghanis in Cash and were allowed calling himself chapan Daz or joined the resistance said in Quet Little Freedom of movement in Corn horseman the afghan said in Peta Pakistan that during his guard Parison to non Muslim soviet sol Shawar Pakistan that his Resis duties at Kandahar Airport a so Diers. Tance group is in Contact with Viet Soldier Muslim from so ple inside the soviet Union and that Viet Uzbekistan told him that the afghan army defector said messages have been received from the muslims wearing soviet uni he escaped during a trip into Kan Muslim sympathizers there. Forms in Afghanistan made a Point Dahar to buy provisions. Much of the nation and the culture Shock of modernization make this revolution unique different from Western models or will Cleri Cal Rule with its Banning of everything from opposition newspapers to alcohol and Western movies its islamic Laws and its require ments of heavy smocks and scarves if not chador for women prove too much Brinton suggests very hard on protect your the last thing you want Road trip is an Over heated Rad. It can damage your engine Hurt your pocket Book and ruin your vacation. We make sure your Cooling system is in top form so you won t be left stewing in the summer heat. 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