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...detest it. Tehran Sociologist Ehsan Naraghi, who received his doctorate from the Sorbonne, believes that under the pressure of economic development there has been a tragic and costly neglect of Iranian culture. "We have stressed the material aspects of life," he says, "and have lost our cultural identity." Adds Amir Taheri, 38, editor in chief of Kayhan, Iran's largest daily (circ. 700,000): "What does this Westernize-or-bust program give us? Western banks, Western guns, Western secret police, Western buildings. They are supposed to solve our problems. But do they? I don't think so. We need...
...recession cut the demand for oil. For the Iranian year that ends March 20, the country's oil revenues will be about $3 billion less than expected. As a result, Iran's $45 billion budget for the coming year projects a deficit of $2.4 billion. Prime Minister Amir Abass Hoveida characterizes that sum as a nachees (Persian peanut), but it will nonetheless be Iran's first deficit in a decade. Last week the government officially announced that it was trimming its price for heavy crude by 9½? per bbl., to $11.40, a gesture aimed at increasing...
...have room for only one of every ten hopeful students who apply. The Shah's immediate circle of advisers is also surprisingly small. Among them are Premier Hoveida, 54, a dapper man who has held his job nine years; Hushang Ansary, 46, Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance; Amir Assadullah Alam, 55, who acts as the sovereign's right hand as minister of the court; and Jamshid Amuzegar, 51, who until recently served as the Shah's voice and goad at OPEC meetings. Amuzegar last April was shifted to Interior Minister, partly so that he might help...
Despite such tensions. Iran maintains overtly cordial relations with the Soviet Union, with whom it shares nearly 2,000 miles of common border. Indeed, Iran has even received antiaircraft guns and military vehicles, as well as economic aid. from the Soviets. But there is an edge to Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveida's voice when he says: "Subversion under whatever name and from whatever source will not be tolerated in the Persian Gulf...
Shortly after President Nixon named former CIA Director Richard Helms as Ambassador to Iran, his Soviet counterpart in Teheran, Vladimir Erofeyev, was at a formal dinner party with Iranian Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveida. "What do you think about the United States sending you a spy as ambassador?" Erofeyev asked Hoveida. "Well," replied the Prime Minister coolly, "they are at least sending us their No. 1 spy. You can't be more than...