Word: azerbaijan
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...formula was in full application last week. Britain no longer aggressively expanding her empire could scarcely count on firm U.S. support so remote a corner of the world as Irans northwest corner, Azerbaijan. Because the Russians knew this well the men of the Red Army who occupy northern Iran were appointed by Moscow as paladins of self-determination. Benevolently, they looked the other way while the new Communist-inspired "Democratic Party" led a revolt. The crooked streets of Tabriz, Iran's second city, were clouded with dust and excitement as the National Assembly prepared to proclaim the province...
...revolt had made rapid progress since it welled up less than two months ago. Most of Azerbaijan (see map) was already in rebel hands. Rebel columns sped along the swampy Caspian littoral to seize the town of Bandar Shah; they headed east toward Iran's sacred city of Meshed...
Iranian protests to London and Washington evoked diplomatic notes to Moscow as strongly worded as Teheran could wish. But words had no great weight last week in the wooded hills and fertile valleys of Azerbaijan. The Teheran Government temporized by appointing a commission made up largely of former premiers to investigate the situation in the northwest. It was a weak expedient, but Teheran had probably heard that Washington's unoffi cial attitude was "What more...
...stream of Iranian notes pleading permission to suppress the revolt in Russian-occupied Azerbaijan drew a bitter, accusing blast from Moscow. Because Government constabulary had provoked incidents in Azerbaijan, the Red Army would admit no Iranian troops into the Iranian province. While it was on the subject, Moscow also turned down a U.S. proposal that all Allied troops leave Iran by Jan. 1, in place of the treaty deadline, March 2. The U.S. thereupon moved 2,000 of its troops back again. The same day, in Azerbaijan, the Iranian Governor of Maragha fell to a rebel's bullet...
...happened near Kazvin, about 90 miles northwest of Teheran, one day last week. Teheran's official version: a Red Army officer and his jeepload of four machine gunners halted the commander of an Iranian force, speeding to combat a Communist-inspired uprising in Azerbaijan province. The Russian ordered the four Iranian battalions to turn back, "otherwise he would be obliged to use the machine guns...