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...worst, if disorders flare up in Iran as a result of nationalization, the Russians may intervene, grab the oil, even unleash World War III. The Russians would not necessarily have to use the Red army to move into Iran; the northern border province of Azerbaijan (which the Russians tried to annex in 1946) might be used by Moscow to set up a "native Iranian" Communist regime...
Iran shook last week with its worst crisis since the revolt in Azerbaijan in 1945-46. Just as Premier Hussein Ala's strategy of conciliation seemed to be cooling off his heated country, disorder flared up again. The new outbreak of violence was plainly Red-inspired; it aimed at seizing the leadership of the popular and inflammable oil nationalization drive...
...succeed Razmara as Premier, the Shah appointed Hussein Ala, 68, postwar Iranian Ambassador to the U.S. Hussein Ala is the doughty little statesman who, in 1946, had stood up at Lake Success and successfully demanded that the Russians clear out of the northern Iranian province of Azerbaijan. Until this week, Ala was in charge of a generous and sense-making program of parceling out land, owned by the Shah, to landless peasants. Parliamentary confirmation of Hussein Ala was promptly voted...
...spring of 1946, a little man named Hussein Ala, envoy from Iran, stood before the U.N. Security Council and unflinchingly insisted that the Russian army get out of his country. Sullenly, the Red army withdrew. The Communist puppet government of Azerbaijan in northern Iran collapsed. This was the first important postwar setback for Communist aggression-and the first great post-war symbol of the free world's strength. Thoughtful men, while they rejoiced, realized that the victory would be empty unless the U.S. moved rapidly to aid Iran, which was economically prostrate and politically shaky...
...peasants who work the land. But the Shah of Shahs is as insecure and distrustful as all other elements in Persian life. In 1946 he had at his side Iran's best elder statesman, Ahmad Qavam-es-Sultaneh, the Premier who resisted the Russian threat and regained Azerbaijan. The Shah, however, could not stand Qavam's growing popularity and prestige. He dismissed him, and today wily old (75) Qavam sits in his Teheran villa, plotting against his master...