Word: azerbaijan
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...Russian troops are supposed to have left Azerbaijan, but plenty of Russian equipment stayed behind. Rumors persisted that many a Russian in the disputed province had donned an Azerbaijanian uniform...
...threatening clouds of Soviet expansion were beginning to precipitate. Last fortnight, as negotiations between Iran and its rebel Soviet-sponsored Azerbaijan province broke down, Azerbaijan's Russian-installed Radio Tabriz declaimed: "We declare war against Iran. . . ." Later Tabriz dispatches explained that poor flying weather postponed the war. Last week Tabriz reported that Teheran troops were attacking Azerbaijan along 150 miles of the Kurdistan front...
...Said Azerbaijan's Premier Jafar Pishevari the following day: "Our country is on a war footing. . . . Russian moral support . . . made it possible for the people to realize a 30-year-old hope...
Michael Foot, just back from an official visit to Teheran, said this week that the Russians were likely to keep a "dominat ing force" in Azerbaijan and planned to control Iran's elections...
Thunder on the Right. Meanwhile from Iran, came an explanation of why the Iranian Government was playing up to Russia. Teheran needed Russia's support in domesticating Azerbaijan's Russian-inspired rebels. Trouble was brewing elsewhere in Iran. As the Red Army withdrew, rightist politicians and landowners, who consider Premier Ahmed Gavam's Government proSoviet, were going on the warpath. In Mazanderan, along the Caspian coast, armed bands were attacking left-wing peasants and workers. In Khorosan, fundamentalist Mohammedans were organizing to combat Communist influence by abolishing the reforms made a generation ago by Reza Shah Pahlevi...