Word: ahmad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After the Teheran Government of wily, tough Premier Ahmad Gavam reoccupied the northern province of Azerbaijan without interference from Russia (TIME, Dec. 23), Gavam was able to smash the Azerbaijan "Democrats" (Red sympathizers) and also to reduce the Communist-tutored Tudeh party to insignificance. That left the Soviet-Persian oil agreement, signed in April 1946, which could not take effect until the Persian Majlis (parliament) ratified...
...almost surely count on State Department support to win concessions in two potentially oil-rich, but undeveloped Middle East territories: 1) Yemen, which borders Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea; and 2) the Persian Gulf "neutral zone" jointly owned by King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia and Sheikh Ahmad ibn as Sabbah of Kuwait. Sheikh Sabbah last week was already dickering with bidders for the neutral-zone concession...
Like Tennyson's Brook, a Persian election goes on forever, and sees, in its course, a varied scene. In April 1946, Prime Minister Ahmad Gavam first promised to hold an immediate election for the Majlis (Parliament) to ratify the Russian oil concession he had just signed in Moscow. The Russians were then posed menacingly in Azerbaijan. In December 1946, when the Russians abandoned the Azerbaijani Democrats, the election finally "started" with much fanfare. Distribution of registration forms began-by plane, truck and camel back. A TIME correspondent asked Gavam when it would be completed. Fingering his jade conversation beads...
...little Hussein Ala, for pounding the anti-Russian alarm too loudly in the Security Council. Security Council disapproval forced the Red Army to leave all Persia?but skeptics pointed out that Red influence, exerted through the Communist-led Tudeh Party, was still strong in Teheran; they doubted if Premier Ahmad Gavam's Government was free enough to re-establish its sovereignty over Azerbaijan...
Last week Allah's Brother spoke. The Qashqai and neighboring Bakhtiari tribesmen fought Government forces along 140 miles of the Persian Gulf coast, attacked the port of Bushire, entered the outskirts of Shiraz. Harried Premier Ahmad Gavam sent a five-man mission to the threatened capital to talk peace terms with Nasser Khan's leaders...