Word: elburz
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...chartered Air France 747 circled over the city and past the nearby Elburz Mountains three times before settling down gently on the tarmac of Tehran's Mehrabad Airport. As aides and reporters milled about, the frail old man, wearing a black turban and ankle-length robes, stepped out of the aircraft's door into the chill February morning. His back hunched, he clutched the arm of an Air France purser as he walked down the portable ramp to touch Iranian soil. After 15 years in exile, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. 78, spiritual leader of a revolution that has been building...
...gymnasium in Tehran. Bi Mokh's name means "Brainless" but his lucrative employment with the CIA shows he was inappropriately christened. Roosevelt's other macabre preparations for the coup included the assasination of some of Mossadeq's supporters. Their bodies, throats slit, were buried in the Elburz mountains...
...said to be putting in 15-hour days and even to be working on Friday, the Muslim day of rest. Neither he nor his wife, the Empress Farah, had made any public appearances for two weeks, although the Empress slipped away one day to go skiing in the nearby Elburz Mountains. The Shah was staying out of sight, according to a spokesman, both for security reasons and because he did not "want to resurrect the impression that he runs the country...
History's classic murders for policy purposes were committed by the 11th-century Moslem sect of Assassins, founded by the fanatically ambitious Hasan ibn-al-Sabbah. Established in a rocky fortress in the Elburz mountains, Hasan propagated his autocratic rule by a program of systematic murder. His killers were the Fida'is (devout ones), young men trained from adolescence in a sort of Green Beret tradition to murder with a variety of weapons...
...report of the commission envisions a somewhat utopian community, removed by 160 miles and the Elburz Mountains from Iran's crowded urban nightmare, Teheran. The planned city is supposed to grow to include 50,000 people as well as an undergraduate college, a secondary school and health facilities...