Word: farsi
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...While plainclothesmen and a detachment of Islamic Guards armed with machine guns hustled the group through the lobby, hotel staffers were amazed to hear the foreigners address one another, and their Iranian hosts, as baradar (brother), in the best tradition of Islamic revolutionaries, while they chatted in flawless, idiomatic Farsi...
...better members of an inefficient secret service created after the fall of the Shah, and former SAVAK agents who have lost none of their taste for brutality and their skill at torture. Their Soviet teachers, who are evidently members of Central Asian minorities who speak languages related to Farsi, behave like true Muslim believers. "We are Muslim brothers and must help one another," is the KGB line in the Saltanatabad spy school. The Soviet instructors even pray with their students, while ostentatiously riffling through their traditional Muslim prayer beads...
Settlement will be a painstaking and very expensive process. Only three people have been hired who can simultaneously translate the proceedings into English and Farsi. They will have to be parceled out among the 800 individual cases that companies with more than $250,000 in claims apiece are expected to submit. Moreover, one U.S. official reports that other Farsi translators are charging up to $200 for each double-spaced page of legal papers...
...Islamic and Western ways, is harsh and sometimes bizarre. A $500 million 200-unit apartment complex in Jidda has yet to be occupied nearly a year after completion, because religious conservatives objected to the lack of separate elevators for women. Concedes the city's young mayor, Mohammed Said Farsi, an architect educated in Egypt and Britain: "Our biggest problem has been too rapid expansion...
After he was moved to a prison in Tehran in late June, Metrinko cursed his guards in Farsi as "thieves" and "liars" for taking away his watch and glasses, and denounced Khomeini as a "killer." The militants blindfolded Metrinko, punched and slapped him, and put him in an isolation cell. For two weeks he slept on its bare floor with no heat or light, except for what little came over the transom of the steel door...