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...most important event on the world stage last week was something that did not happen. Despite its intense interest and ambitions in the Middle East (see below), Russia failed to react when the Persian Government sent troops into Azerbaijan Province to supervise elections and to reassert Teheran's authority. The outcome was U.N.'s first practical victory in its fight to keep the peace...
Just a year ago a Kremlin-coached team of politicians in Azerbaijan, which adjoins the Soviet border, had proclaimed Azerbaijan "independence." The Teheran Government's fortunes reached a low point last May when it virtually disowned its Washington Ambassador, bright-eyed little Hussein Ala, for pounding the anti-Russian alarm too loudly in the Security Council. Security Council disapproval forced the Red Army to leave all Persia?but skeptics pointed out that Red influence, exerted through the Communist-led Tudeh Party, was still strong in Teheran; they doubted if Premier Ahmad Gavam's Government was free enough to re-establish...
Capitulation. The Persian Chief of Staff laid out complete operation plans for invading Azerbaijan. Last week, as zero hour neared, the radio at Tabriz (Azerbaijan's capital) shrilled defiance: "We've issued orders to our army to stop Gavam's troops at all costs. . . . Long live the Azerbaijan nation...
Grey little Jafar Pishevari, the Azerbaijan leader, waited for word of support from Moscow. It never came. Pishevari capitulated, and then fled across the Soviet border with a few followers. Thousands of Azerbaijani lined the roads and hurrahed Gavam's troops with a cheer never raised before on land or sea: "Long live the Security Council !" The Tabriz radio now said: "Being desirous of . . . proving to the world that we want peace . . . we have decided to help the Government in its task. . . . Long live the sovereignty and independence of Persia...
Mianeh is five miles beyond the pass, and is the first city of any importance on the main highway and railway route to Tabriz, Azerbaijan capital...