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Among charges on which a former mayor of Tehran appeared before a secret revolutionary court was that he was responsible for an abnormal waste of man-hours through traffic congestion. His defence was that he had wanted to buy 3,000 more buses and to compel people to use them, but it seems that he was not allowed to do so because the Shah had a vested interest in the car industry.
Reporting the case the Financial Times added: "What sealed his fate in the end was an inadequate answer to the apparently unrelated charge that he belonged to the International Rotary Club. The court president said the club had links with the CIA — proof of foreign intervention in the Iranian traffic problem."
The ex-mayor was shot. The leader of the Greater London Council must now be twitching a trifle.