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### Viewing cable 75TEHRAN2069, IRANIAN RESURGENCE PARTY CREATED BY SHAH

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75TEHRAN2069 | 1975-03-04 11:11 | 2010-11-30 16:04 | CONFIDENTIAL | Embassy Tehran

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    R 041125Z MAR 75
    FM AMEMBASSY TEHRAN
    TO SECSTATE WASHDC 475

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 1 OF 2 TEHRAN 2069

    Declassified/Released US Department of State EO
    Systematic Review 05 JUL 2006

    E.O. 11652: GDS
    TAGS: PINT IR
    SUBJECT: IRANIAN RESURGENCE PARTY CREATED BY SHAH

    SUMMARY: CREATION OF IRANIAN RESURGENCE PARTY ANNOUNCED BY SHAH
    MARCH 2 IS MOVE TO SEEK BROADER SUPPORT FOR MONARCHY AND THE SHAHPEOPLE
    REVOLUTION. ALL IRANIANS OF VOTING AGE ARE EXPECTED TO
    EXPRESS ALLEGIANCE TO NEW PARTY OR RISK BEING VIEWED AS OPPONENTS
    OF SHAH AND EVEN TRAITORS WHO SHOULD LEAVE IRAN OR GO TO PRISON.
    SHAH EXPLAINED IRAN'S RETURN TO SINGLE PARTY SYSTEM AS NECESSARY
    BECAUSE QTE SHAMEFUL UTTERANCES UNQTE BY SOME IRANIANS SHOWED NEED
    FOR IRANIANS TO CLOSE RANKS IN EFFORTS TO ACHIEVE QTE GREAT
    CIVILIZATION, UNQTE AND BECAUSE OPPOSITION PARTIES HAD FAILED.
    ELECTIONS SCHEDULED FOR SUMMER WILL APPARENTLY BE HELD, BUT IT IS
    NOT CLEAR HOW THEY WILL BE ORGANIZED. NET RESULT IS TO MAKE
    IRANIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM LESS FLEXIBLE. INTERNATIONAL REACTION
    WILL PROBABLY RANGE FROM INDIFFERENCE TO CHARGES OF INCREASED
    TOTALITARIANISM. SHAH APPARENTLY PLANS TO CONTINUE ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT
    IN DAILY POLITICAL AFFAIRS. THIS IS CONTRARY TO EARLIER SUGGESTIONS
    THAT HE MIGHT BE MOVING GRADUALLY TO CONFINE HIMSELF TO
    BROAD POLICY GUIDANCE AND LEAVE IMPLEMENTATION TO GOVERNMENT. END
    SUMMARY.

    ¶1. SHAH'S LENGTHY STATEMENT AT HIS MARCH 2 PRESS CONFERENCE, FROM
    WITH CORRESPONDENTS FOR FOREIGN MEDIA WERE EXCLUDED, (TEXT SENT BY
    AIRGRAM) ESTABLISHED IRANIAN RESURGENCE PARTY. NEW PARTY WILL
    ABSORB RULING IRAN NOVIN PARTY, LOYAL OPPOSITION MARDOM PARTY,
    AND THE ULTRA-NATIONALIST PAN IRANIST PARTY AND ITS SPLINTER
    GROUP THE IRANIANS PARTY. PRIME MINISTER HOVEYDA IS TO BE SECRETARY
    GENERAL FOR A PERIOD OF AT LEAST TWO YEARS. SHAH WILL LATER
    PROPOSE CHAIRMAN OF NEW PARTY'S EXECUTIVE BOARD AND PRESIDENT FOR
    ITS POLITICAL BUREAU. A PARTY CONGRESS WILL BE HELD, PERHAPS
    WITHIN TWO MONTHS. GENERAL ELECTIONS WILL BE HELD THIS SUMMER
    UNDER AUSPICES OF NEW PARTY.

    ¶2. SHAH'S STATEMENT BEGAN WITH FAMILIAR RECITATION OF IRAN'S
    GROWING SELF-RELIANCE AND ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE CONTRASTING SHARPLY
    WITH ITS RELATIVE WEAKNESS IN FIRST HALF OF CENTURY. HE NOTED THAT
    OPPOSITION PARTIES WERE CREATED IN RESPONSE TO HIS OWN WISHES
    AND COMMENTED THAT THEY HAD BEEN FACED WITH A DIFFICULT TASK.
    SHAH OBSERVED THAT THEY HAD FAILED TO FULFILL THEIR PROPER ROLE. HE
    COMMENTED THAT SOME IRANIANS HAD MADE QTE SHAMEFUL UTTERANCES
    UNQTE WHICH REFLECTED A LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF IRAN' GOALS. IN
    ORDER TO WELD ALL IRANIANS TOGETHER IN PURSUIT OF GOALS OF THE
    SHAH-PEOPLE REVOLUTION, HE HAD, THEREFORE, DECIDED TO CREATE NEW
    ORGANIZATION WHICH WOULD SUPPRESS PARTY DIFFERENCES. ONLY REQUIREMENTS
    FOR MEMBERSHIP IN NEW ORGANIZATION WOULD BE LOYALTY TO (1)
    MONARCHY, (2) IRAN'S CONSTITUTION, AND (3) SIXTH OF BAHMAN (SHAHPEOPLE)
    REVOLUTION. HE SPECIFICALLY SAID NEW PARTY WOULD FOSTER
    CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM, AND HE PREDICTED THAT POLITICAL WINGS
    WOULD EVOLVE WITHIN NEW PARTY. HE URGED ALL IRANIANS ELIGIBLE TO
    VOTE TO ENTER INTO NEW POLITICAL STRUCTURE OR CLARIFY THEIR POSITION.
    BY THIS HE MEANT THAT THOSE WHO COULD NOT AGREE WITH THE
    THREE PRINCIPLES SHOULD LEAVE IRAN OR GO TO PRISON AS TRAITORS
    UNLESS THEY OPENLY EXPRESSED THEIR DISAPPROVAL AND WERE NOT ANTINATIONAL.
    IF DISAPPROVAL IS IDEOLOGICAL, PERSON WOULD REMAIN FREE
    IN IRAN BUT QTE SHOULD NOT HAVE ANY EXPECTATIONS UNQTE. FULL
    PARTICIPATION IN IRAN'S PROGRESS WOULD OBVIOUSLY REQUIRE MEMBERSHIP
    IN THE IRAN RESURGENCE PARTY. HE SAID IT WAS HIS EXPECTATION
    THAT WORKERS, FARMERS, AND TEACHERS WOULD BE THE FIRST GROUPS TO
    ANNOUNCE THEIR LOYALTY TO THE NEW PARTY.

    ¶3. COMMENT: ABOVE ALL, SHAH'S ACTION IN RETURNING TO SINGLE PARTY
    SYSTEM OF 1964-67 PERIOD SHOWS HIS EXTREME SENSITIVITY TO CRITICISM
    AND STRONG DESIRE TO RECEIVE OVERT EVIDENCE OF POPULAR SUPPORT.
    AFTER HE EXPERIMENTED WITH TAME OPPOSITION PARTIES IN
    1956-64 PERIOD WITH POOR RESULTS, SHAH THEN TURNED TO HASSAN ALI
    MANSUR'S PROGRESSIVE SOCIETY TO CREATE IRAN NOVIN PARTY AS INSTRUMENT
    TO IMPLEMENT HIS SIXTH OF BAHMAN REVOLUTION. MARDOM PARTY
    WAS SUBSEQUENTLY REJUVENATED TO STIMULATE IRAN NOVIN TO PERFORM
    MORE EFFECTIVELY. DESPITE CONSTANT STATEMENTS OF LOYALTY TO SHAH
    AND HIS PLANS FOR IRAN, PARTIES HAVE APPARENTLY NOT PLEASED HIM.
    AS INDICATED BY FAILURES OF FORMER MARDOM PARTY SECRETARIES
    GENERAL ALI NAQI AND NASSER AMERI, EVEN ACTIVITIES OF GELDED
    OPPOSITION HAD PROVED TOO CRITICAL FOR SHAH'S TASTE. NEVERTHELESS
    HIS PAST STATEMENTS INDICATED CONTINUING SUPPORT FOR COCCEPT OF
    MULTI-PARTY SYSTEM IN IRAN, AND IMPERIAL DECISION TO INSTITUTE ONEPARTY
    STATE REPRESENTS 180-DEGREE SHIFT IN POLICY WHICH ALSO
    APPEARS TO NEGATE EARLIER PROMISES OF FREER ELECTIONS LATER THIS
    YEAR. KEY SECTION OF SPEECH IS COMMENT THAT HE HAD HEARD QTE SOME
    REALLY SHAMEFUL UTTERANCES, WHICH IN NOW WAY SHOULD BE EXPECTED
    FROM AN IRANIAN. THIS SCENE, OF COURSE, HAS ALWAYS RECURRED WHEN
    IRAN HAS BEEN ENGAGED IN THE DEFENCE OF ITS RIGHTS AT A HISTORIC
    JUNCTURE. THIS SITUATION IS INTOLERABLE, UNQTE UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES
    WE DOUBT THAT MUCH CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM WILL EMERGE
    FROM THE IRANIAN RESURGENCE PARTY.

    ¶4. IN OPERATIONAL TERMS LITTLE HAS CHANGED, FOR DESPITE FACADE OF
    QTE ME-TOO UNQTE OPPOSITION PARTIES SHAH HAS ALWAYS CALLED THE
    TUNE AND ONLY RULING IRAN NOVIN PARTY HAD ANY IMPORTANCE. PRIME
    MINISTER HAS BEEN LEAD DANCER, AND HIS SELECTION AS SECGEN AT
    JANUARY PARTY CONGRESS HAD TIED IRAN NOVIN PARTY EVEN CLOSER TO
    SHAH. IMMEDIATE CONSEQUENCE OF NEW MOVE HAS BEEN FLOOD OF STATEMENTS
    OF LOYALTY TO SHAH, CONSTITUTION AND REVOLUTION, BOTH BY
    GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS. THERE IS CLEARLY NO VIABLE ALTERNATIVE FOR
    IRANIANS WHO WANT TO PARTICIPATE ACTIVELY IN IRAN'S DEVELOPMENT
    AND SHARE ITS PROSPERITY. ALL DIFFERENCES OF VIEW ON HOW TO IMPLEMENT
    SHAH'S PLAN FOR IRAN WILL BE SUPPRESSED UNTIL NEW PARTY
    DEVELOPS AN IDEOLOGY AND ITS LEADERSHIP IS CONSTITUTED.

    ¶5. SHAH'S SPEECH IS VAGUE ON GOALS OF IRANIAN RESURGENCE PARTY AND
    MANY OTHER POINTS. IT IS NOT CLEAR, FOR EXAMPLE, HOW CANDIDATES
    WILL BE SELECTED FOR SUMMER ELECTIONS AND ON WHAT PLATFORMS THEY
    WILL RUN. SPEECH SHOWS SIGNS OF HURRIED PREPARATION FOR ISSUANCE
    PRIOR TO HIS DEPARTURE FOR ALGIERS. WHILE MOST IRANIANS WILL
    ACCEPT NEW CHANGE WITH TYPICAL CYNICISM, IMPLIED CRITICISM OF ALL
    PARTIES FOR FAILING TO GET BEHIND SHAH'S PUSH FOR REVOLUTION FROM
    THE TOP MAY ALIENATE SOME PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY THOSE WHO HAVE
    WORKED HARD FOR IRAN NOVIN PARTY ON ASSUMPTION THEY WERE CARRYING
    OUT SHAH'S WISHES.

    ¶6. INTERNATIONAL REACTION WILL PROBABLY VARY FROM INDIFFERENCE TO
    INCREASINGLY SHRILL CHARGES OF TOTALITARIANISM. IRAN'S IMAGE AS
    COUNTRY IN WHICH ALL ELEMENTS WERE BEING TAPPED IN DEVELOPMENT
    PROCESS MAY SUFFER UNLESS NEW PARTY'S MEMBERSHIP COMES FROM BROAD
    SPECTRUM. IT APPEARS THAT EARLIER SUCCESSFUL IRANIAN POLICY OF
    COMPROMISE AND COOPERATION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY QTE TAKE IT OR
    LEAVE IT UNQTE STANCE IN DEALING WITH OPPOSITION.

    ¶7. IN A-19 EMBASSY NOTED THAT SHAH HOPES TO MOVE TOWARD SITUATION
    IN WHICH HE GIVES POLICY GUIDANCE BUT KEEPS HIS DISTANCE FROM
    DAILY ACTIVITIES OF GOVERNMENT. INITAL IMPRESSION OF HIS ACTION IN
    CREATING NEW POLITICAL PARTY AND FORECASTING HIS PERSONAL SELECTION
    OF SOME OF ITS LEADERS IS THAT HE HAS RETURNED TO MORE DIRECT
    INVOLVEMENT IN THE BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT. BETTER JUDGMENT ON THIS
    POINT CAN BE MADE WHEN FUNCTION OF NEW PARTY BECOME CLEAR.

    ¶8. IN SUM, GIVEN EXISTING STRICT DEGREE OF POLITICAL CONTROLS,
    SHAH'S DECISION TO MELD ALL POLITICAL PARTIES INTO ONE APPEARS TO
    OFFER LITTLE IN WAY OF IMPROVEMENTS TO IRANIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM
    WHILE ADDING SEVERAL DISADVANTAGES BOTH DOMESTICALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY.

    HELMS

    Declassified/Released US Department of State EO
    Systematic Review 05 JUL 2006

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