Word: azemudeh
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...hours later that night, Brigadier General Hussein Azemudeh, the thin-lipped military prosecutor, drove up to the barracks and sent for the prisoners. Two months ago nine of the ten prisoners had been splendidly uniformed brother officers of his. Now, in shapeless prison garb, heads shaven, stubbly faces pale, they shuffled in. The general glared at the first man, and said harshly: "You are called here to make your will. Know what I mean?" Colonel Siamak cleared his throat. "Yes," he said, "I know." The appeal had failed...
...prosecutor's week in court, but the writer, producer, director and star performer was again that wizened old mummer, Mohammed Mossadegh. Hunched over the defense table in Saltanatabad barracks, the deposed Premier of Iran kept up a running commentary on Prosecutor Brigadier General Hussein Azemudeh's attempt to have him convicted of treason. He feigned shock, horror, innocence, fear of assassination, and sleep; he corrected the prosecutor's grammar and syntax, wowed the courtroom crowd with witty ad libs, laughed at the court's most damaging evidence, and finally developed a most economical retort that required...
...This man is very cunning!" cried Prosecutor Azemudeh. Mossadegh ruminatively lifted his head and, in the voice of an ailing Guernsey, commented: "Moooooooo!" Azemudeh recited a vast series of crimes committed by Mossadegh against the nation. Said Mossadegh: "Mooooo!" Azemudeh poured scorn and shame on the man who had defied the Shah of Iran. Mossadegh replied: "Moooooo...
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