court ignored notions of due process, impartiality of the judge, or allowing the defendant to consult legal options. Many pundits have come to conclude that the verdict was already made by the Ayatollah Khomeini before the trial ever commenced. Khalkhali's indictment of Hoveyda was as follows: Amir Abbas Hoveyda, son of Habibollah, birth certificate number 3542, issued in Tehran, born in 1298 (1920), previously minister of the deposed royal court, and the Shah's ex-Prime Minister, a citizen of Iran, is accused of: Spreading corruption on earth. Fighting God, God's creatures and the Viceroy of Imam Zaman. Acts of sedition detrimental to national security and independence, through forming cabinets that were puppets of the United States and England and defending the interests of colonialists. Plotting against national sovereignty by interference in elections to Majlis, appointing and dismissing ministers at the behest of foreign embassies. Turning over underground resources: oil, copper and uranium, to foreigners. Expansion of the influence of American Imperialism, and its European allies, in Iran by destroying internal resources and turning Iran into a market for foreign commodities. Paying national revenues from oil to the Shah and Farah and to countries dependent on the West and then borrowing money at high interest, and enslaving conditions from America and Western countries. Ruining agriculture and destroying forests. Direct participation in acts of espionage for the West and Zionism. Complicity with conspirators from CENTO and NATO for the oppression of the peoples of Palestine, Vietnam and Iran. Active member of Freemasonry in the Foroughi Lodge according to existing documents and the confessions of the accused. Participation in terrorizing and frightening the justice seeking people including their death and injury and limiting their freedom by closing down newspapers and exercising censorship on the print media and books. Founder and first secretary of the despotic "Rastakhiz of the Iranian People" party. Spreading cultural and ethical corruption and direct participation in consolidating the pillars of colonialism and granting capitulatory rights to Americans. Direct participation in smuggling heroin in France along with Hassan Ali Mansour. False reporting through the publication of puppet papers and appointing puppet editors to head the media. According to minutes of cabinet meetings and of the Supreme Economic Council, and the claims of private plaintiffs, including Ali Sayyed Javadi, and taking into account documents found in SAVAK and the office of the prime minister, and the confessions of Manouchehr Azmoun, Mahmoud Jafarian,