Word: farsi
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...border. On the other hand, the National Security Council last week pondered the possibility that anarchy in Iran could lead to a radical leftist takeover. No doubt the same possibility has occurred to Iran watchers in Moscow. That helps explain the ambiguity of Soviet behavior so far: provocative Farsi-language broadcasts from a Soviet radio station in Baku, combined with begrudging diplomatic support for the U.S. at the United Nations...
...most of them gradually became known. Among them were political officers, Marines, code clerks, secretaries, the kinds of people who staff American embassies throughout the world. Tomseth, the second in command, was the ranking captive. Those held included Mike Holland, the burly security chief; Ann Swift, an efficient, Farsi-speaking officer who during the takeover tried over and over to reach the acting Defense Minister; Mike Matrinko, who was a consul in Tabriz last spring when the mission was overrun by revolutionaries; and John Graves, the bearded public affairs officer. Charge
...Seyyed Mostafa al Moussavi, had six children, the youngest of whom was Ruhollah, which in Farsi means Sign of God. A few months after Ruhollah's birth-for which one plausible date is May 17, 1900-his father was murdered on the road between Khomein and Arak as he set out on a pilgrimage to the Shi'a holy city of Najaf in Iraq. In later years there have been stories circulated that Mostafa's death was somehow caused by Reza Shah, father of the recently exiled Emperor. In fact, Reza was only about 22 years...
...technical, agricultural, industrial and educational aid. Disavow convincingly any thought of sponsoring a countercoup, still a subject of great worry to the Iranian revolutionaries. Replace U.S. Ambassador William H. Sullivan, who is thought to have been too close to the Shah. Train some of our State Department officers in Farsi "and send them over in waves. And get people over there very quickly who understand Shi'ite Islam...
...apart. They wear the same mixed bag of military and civilian clothes, and it's commonplace to be stopped by some kid of 13 who pokes a submachine gun into your stomach." The language problem makes matters worse. "Only one correspondent in the international press corps here speaks Farsi," says van Voorst. "In a crunch you don't know whether a gunman is ordering you to lie down or stand...