Kashani

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 * Kashani Background**

Kashani played a role as an ally of Mossadegh's in the National Front until **1952**. Kashani would then abandon and move into opposition as the U.S. and the British moved against Mossadegh. Kashani had maintained ties to the Islamist-terrorist underground, but in public he kept his distance from the Devotees of Islam and their ilk. The CIA was clear of the power that Kashani had in Iran. When Mossadegh returned to power in **1952** it was noted in reports of overthrowing him. Kashani and Army Officials are mentioned as leaders. "A contest in the streets between the forces supporting Mossadegh and Kashani would be bitter and destructive" Some of the forces that could be mobilized by Kashani were "the Bazaar mobs and the bands organized by his sons" and "the Fedayan terroists organization of Moslem extremists." As that was written by CIA analysts, the CIA's covert-operations unit was already working with Kashani to mobilize his forces and to provoke exactly that "contest in the streets." In **1952-1953** Kashani was approached by the CIA and the MI6 who had offered him money to break with Mossadegh and support the Shah. It worked and now it has been repported that Kashani has been receiving large sums of money from someone and some say it is from the CIA. Which is true. (Devil's Game: How The United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalists)

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